Often our loneliness and isolation is due to a failure of spiritual imagination.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Austin Kleon • 100 quotes that helped me write
“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.” - Ursula K. Le Guin
Like any currency of value, the human imagination is a coin with two inseparable sides. It is our faculty of fancy that fills the disquieting gaps of the unknown with the tranquilizing certitudes of myth and superstition, that points to magic and witchcraft when common sense and reason fail to unveil causality. But that selfsame faculty is also... See more
Maria Popova • Figuring
Her imagination, she knew, was a means to escape this cul-de-sac of despair.