
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
- Topic: Imagination, Solitude
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
› Samuel Johnson
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
› Albert Einstein
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.
› Walter Cronkite
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
› Walt Disney
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
› Napoleon Hill
If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
› William Arthur Ward
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.
› Eleanor Roosevelt
I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.
› Pearl S. Buck
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
› Robert Louis Stevenson
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
› Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
› Eckhart Tolle
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
› Democritus
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
› Epictetus
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.
› Malcolm X
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.
› Stephen Covey
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.
› Carl Jung
