How do you see the world?

“She believed, of course … because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.” ~ Rosamunde Pilcher

“We don’t get what we want, we get what we believe. What do you believe is possible for you?” ~ Kelley Rosano

“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.” ~ Brian Selznick

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real.” ~ Nora Ephron

” . . . and so castles made of sand slip into the sea eventually.” ~ Jimi Hendrix

“I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”  ~ Nikolai Gogol

“The camera … may want to know, to develop, to expose, but what it can also do, if pressed, is reveal the flowered vacancy of the invisibilities, the mixed-up motivations, that only a wise author could portray.” — Alexander Nemerov, Silent Dialogues

“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.” ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.” ~ John Updike

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“This or something better now manifests for me in totally satisfying and harmonious ways, for the higest good of all concerned.” Shakti Gawain

“All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you.” ― Khalil Gibran