"Stories are a communal currency of humanity." Tahir Shah, in Arabian Nights
Browsing category: Imagination
"Success is when reality looks like what's in our imagination." Simon Sinek
"The engineers of the future will be poets." Terence McKenna
Yesterday, in the city, I encountered a couple of individuals who were ‘out of their minds’. One was a middle-aged woman who had shorn off all her hair and had harnessed across her belly a plastic, life-like doll that she coddled as if her very own living child. She cooed and clucked and stroked its bald head with maternal love, meandering through the city streets quite in love with her doll. She also carried with her a heavy load of sadness, loneliness and loss, her pampering of the doll speaking of a lost child or
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
Michael Jordan
“Still there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have travelled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story." Patrick Rothfuss
"Stories tell us of what we already knew and forgot, and remind us of what we haven't yet imagined." Anne L. Watson
"If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads." Anatole France
"When you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while."
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables