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"A daydream is an evasion."
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"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."

"You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover."

"I write more with the words I leave out."

"Imagination is phenomenal."

"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

"Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way."

"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."

"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."

"Imagination is a roller coaster ride in search of ideas and beauty into the wonderland of subconscious and conscious mind."
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"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God."


"October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful."


"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence."


"We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us."


"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."


"It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom or never feel in their hearts the desire for the love of God and other men, and who do not thirst for the pure waters of desire which are poured out in us by the strong, living God, are usually those who have drunk from other rivers or have dug for themselves broken cisterns."


"We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others."


"True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques."
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