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“It's better to imagine than to know.”

Book:The Story Girl Illustrated

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The Story Girl Illustrated

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author renowned for her children's literature, particularly the 'Anne of Green Gables' series. Her works are celebrated for their refreshing style and profound insights into human nature. more

“Who can define reality? Isn't everything subjective? If you & I witness the same event, we will recall it and recount it differently. ... Memory is conditioned by emotion, we remember better, and more fully, things that move us, such as the joy of a birth, the pleasure of a night of love, the pain of a loved one's death, the trauma of a wound. When we call up the past, we choose intense moments--good or bad--and omit the enormous gray area of daily life.”

Reality Imagination Memories Memoir Chile South America

Book:My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile

Source: My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile

“How easy it is to fly on paper wings!”

Reading Literature Imagination Fly

Book:The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life

“The true basis of the imagination is reality”

Children Reality Imagination Education

Book:The Advanced Montessori Method

Source: The Advanced Montessori Method

“It is strange that the imagination is the most productive when it finds no outer objects: then it creates objects itself and forms them all the more carefully, because there is no foreign material, but only its own children. There is no poetry in enjoyment (reality kills the dream), only in longing[.]”

Philosophy Imagination Creativity Romanticism German Literature

Author:Karoline von Günderrode

“Agnes discovered that both the imagined and the real worlds could be equally comforting, and that sometimes it was very hard to tell the difference.”

Reality Imagination

Book:The Restless Girls

Source: The Restless Girls

“You see, the king could control the paths his daughters trod; he could take away their pleasures and their views and lock them up. He could make sure that the princesses didn't have anything in that room except their toothbrushes and tiaras, pajamas and nightgowns. But king or no king, there was one thing they possessed that he could never own: their imaginations.”

Imagination

Book:The Restless Girls

Source: The Restless Girls

“Embrace delusions.”

Mind Belief Imagination Brain Health Embrace Illness Thought Mental Delusions

Author:Steven Magee

“...I realized imagination is not just the catalyst of art, it's also the catalyst of compassion. Imagination is the shortest distance between two people, two cultures, two ideologies, two experiences.”

Imagination Empathy

Book:Untamed

Source: Untamed

“If you have seen everything in life, you want to say to people, "Cut the drama and come to the point." But for people, drama is the point. A point is useless to them if it doesn't provide drama.”

Life Mind Soul Philosophy God Wisdom Religion Spirituality Buddhism Zen

Author:Shunya

“The one think i don't glean any information about is her husband, so I let my imagination go to town. I imagine he's called Hugo, works at an art college and specialises in multimedia (whatever that is). At the weekend he plays football and squash and is currently in training for the London Marathon. In addition to this he plays the saxophone, is younger than me, and permanently smells of cinnamon. Make no mistake, Hugo is a right tosser.”

Imagination Humour Neurotic Inferiority Complex Mid Life Crisis

Book:Turning Forty

Source: Turning Forty

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