“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com
“In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“I’ve got quite a vivid imagination and I’m easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a ghost - I think I’m probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.”— Florence Welch, digitalspy.com
“It wasn’t real. I deluded myself. I had this aching need to be loved and it was screwing with my head. Sometimes, when you crave certain feelings, you’ll trick yourself into thinking the other person is something other than what he appears.”— Ilona Andrews, amazon.com
“I’ve always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.”— Will Wright, edition.cnn.com
“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“I feel more and more every day, as my imagination strengthens, that I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds.”— John Keats, amazon.com
“Once upon a time there was a serious, well-behaved young black cat. It belonged to a kind old lady who assured me that no other cat could compare with Kitty . . . She called it 'Kitty,' but Kitty called herself 'Miss Catherine St Quintin.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were – Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense, to fear no longer the terror that flieth by night, yet to feel truly and understand a little, a very little, of the story of life.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“Your mind has countless levels. At higher levels, you possess much more control and authority than you realize.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.”— Deepak Chopra, twitter.com