The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- Topic: Imagination, Perception, Visualize
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
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.
If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.
One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined or the insect, as well for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
On some preference esteem is based; to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.
