Previous Reflections

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

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

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Think well. - Danielle Pierre

Don't judge me by my past. I don't live there anymore. - Unknown

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here. - Finley Dunne

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history. - Donald Trump

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. - Paul Boese

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

He who does not remember the past is condemned to forget where he parked. - David Rudnitsky

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. - Beverly Sills

All things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. - C S Lewis

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling. - Stephen R. Covey

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection. - Vauvenargues

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past. - Jack London

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future. - Bernard Meltzer

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

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. - Golda Meir

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

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. - Ursula K. Le Guin

I have a Rubik's Cube for a rearview mirror, because the past is the only time puzzle I can solve. - Jarod Kintz

Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future. - Jomo Mzee Kenyatta

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

One day you'll find someone who doesn't care about your past because they want to be your future. - Unknown

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast! - Dr. Seuss

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. - T D Jakes

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future. - St. Theresa of Lisieux

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. - Terry Pratchett

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. - Sydney J. Harris

An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities: a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity. - Howard Eves

While some pain is probably inevitable in all relationships, successful couples are usually the ones who are able to forgive. - Ilona Boniwell

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

God gave unto the Animals
A wisdom past our power to see:
Each knows innately how to live,
Which we must learn laboriously. - Margaret Atwood

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. - Patrick Henry