#imagination

"Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?"

"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse."

"Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

"Consciousness makes you an unlimited being by giving the power of your imagination."

"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."

"The mind is so powerful that is can suddenly grow wings of imagination and fly in the open sky."

"Literature is the real life of imaginary people."

"I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like."

"My imagination is something of a badass."

"if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones."

"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."

"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."

"The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see."

"And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that."

"Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep."

"It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us."

"A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process."

"Though my skull is the size of a soup bowl, everything in the universe—and more—can fit inside my imagination. And guess what? My imagination tastes like chicken noodle soup."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

"As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we."