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Quotes About Imagination

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.
~ Anatoly Karpov
Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.
~ Max Ernst
It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.
~ Democritus
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
~ George Santayana
Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.
~ John Grisham
Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
~ Marquis de Sade
Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.
~ Anton Chekhov
Read at whim! Read at whim!
~ Randall Jarrell
Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.
~ Michael Kimmelman
Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.
~ Ben Chestnut
Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
~ Twyla Tharp
If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.
~ Patton Oswalt
I grew up near Disneyland, and my brother's an animator, so I was always really inspired by bright, cartoony colors and that whole feeling of happiness.
~ Gwen Stefani
You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.
~ Mason Cooley
Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.
~ Erin Morgenstern
I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'
~ John Green
Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
~ Honore de Balzac
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
~ Gaston Bachelard
I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, more so than I do in the reality that surrounds me.
~ Kendal Rob
That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.
~ Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic
Let us dare to dream and shoot for the moon. Even if we don't fetch the moon, a million stars may fill us with wonder. ("Happiness blowing in the wind")
~ Erik Pevernagie