Holding On

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

Before imagination can flow, you must let go. - Unknown

The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. - Aesop

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

Man either goes forward in imagination or remains imprisoned in his senses. - Unknown

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. - C S Lewis

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges. - Zachery Ty Bryan

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. - Truman Capote

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. - Stephen Covey

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet. - Earl Nightingale

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. - C S Lewis

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea. - Latin Proverb

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination. - Stephen Helmes

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke

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

My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. - F Scott Fitzgerald

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time. - Toni Morrison