"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."

Beecher, Henry Ward on imagination
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"Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it."

Schreiner, Olive on love   

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

Brown, Les on age and aging
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

Brown, Les on fear
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"In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important."

Brown, Les on growth
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"Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory."

Brown, Les on imagination
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"If you don't stand up for something, you may fall for anything."

Brown, Les on purpose
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"You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are."

Brown, Les on character
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"Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on youth
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"The weakest spot in any person is where they think themselves to be the wisest."

Emmons, G. on weakness
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"Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity."

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel on love
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"The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray."

Gogh, Vincent Van on sea
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."

Fromm, Erich on death
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"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

Byron, Lord on pain
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"Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are."

Dryden, John on pain
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"Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."

Ellis, Havelock on pain
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

Gibran, Kahlil on pain
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"Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again."

Harte, Bret on pain
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"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes."

Chesterfield, Lord on mind   

"The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on mind   

"Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled."

Brande, Dorothea on mind
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"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time."

Ruskin, John on books - reading
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"Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier."

Brande, Dorothea on mind
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"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."

Bibesco, Elizabeth on mind
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"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

Bergson, Henri L. on mind
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"What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind."

Bagehot, Walter on mind
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"We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance."

Aesop on mind
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"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."

Adams, John on mind
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"Your mind is what makes everything else work."

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem on mind
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"A book worth reading is worth buying."

Ruskin, John on books - reading
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"The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind."

Churchill, Winston on mind
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"If you never change your mind, why have one?"

Bono, Edward De on mind
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"He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on mind
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"This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind."

Maltz, Maxwell on mind
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"Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs."

Maltz, Maxwell on mind
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"A mind grows by what it feeds on."

Holland, Josiah Gilbert on mind   

"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge."

Hill, Napoleon on mind
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"Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive."

Hill, Napoleon on mind
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"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on mind
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