Reflection

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

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

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. - Nelson Mandela

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H L Mencken

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

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett

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

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

Logic will get you from A to Z. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus. - Robin Williams

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality. - Albert Hadley

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

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

A beautiful diamond asks to be viewed from many angles, shining in the light. - Clare Josa

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

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. - Anton Chekhov

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

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

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

That's what storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again. - Walt Disney

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

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

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

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. - Lionel Trilling

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

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

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't imagine what it might be. - Joyce Carol Oates

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. - Tim O'Brien