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1 " If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications. "
― Lawrence M. Krauss , A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
2 " And one thing we know is real: horror. It is so real, in fact, that we cannot be sure it could not exist without us. Yes, it needs our imaginations and our consciousness, but it does not ask or require our consent to use them. Indeed, horror operates with complete autonomy. Generating ontological havoc, it is mephitic foam upon which our lives merely float. And, all said, we must face up to it: horror is more real than we are. "
― Thomas Ligotti , Songs of a Dead Dreamer
3 " Colors are what trick the mind and our imaginations into buying things. "
4 " It's time we capture our imaginations for Christ "
5 " We are blessed with a finite life, but our imaginations are infinite. "
6 " We do not always need to " understand" or interpret dreams to receive their gifts to heart and soul. Rather, we can circumambulate them, respect them, let their images feed our imaginations and lead us onward, just as a glimpse of ocean or lake renews and orients and refreshes us on a long drive. "
7 " Things are not real, but they are the reflection of our imaginations and perceptions. "
8 " Our actions let us walk and live. Our imaginations let us fly. So be action oriented and never forget to dream. "
9 " Consciousness is a transformational dynamic force which transforms us by changing our imaginations and perceptions. "
10 " There's an apt expression: 'If you don't live in your body, where are you going to live?' But many of us don't. We tend to get locked into our heads or our imaginations . . . recognizing the importance of the body is primary. It's who we are, it's where we live, it houses and embodies your mind and imagination. "
― Bill Connington , Physical Expression on Stage and Screen: Using the Alexander Technique to Create Unforgettable Performances
11 " Built on the insubstantial foundation of our feelings, the life we had created together seemed a figment of our imaginations that dissolved into fairy dust in the face of something real, and deadly, like cancer. "
― Kim van Alkemade , Orphan Number Eight
12 " We don't know where we come from and where we go, we fill the missing links with whatever our imaginations can provide us "
― Bangambiki Habyarimana , Pearls Of Eternity
13 " So [in mathematics] we get to play and imagine whatever we want and make patterns and ask questions about them. But how do we answer these questions? It’s not at all like science. There’s no experiment I can do ... The only way to get at the truth about our imaginations is to use our imaginations, and that is hard work. "
― Paul Lockhart , A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
14 " Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move. "
― Ryan Lilly
15 " Our room swallowed light whole. Even in summer when sunlight glared through the windows, it was somehow dim inside. Now it was only Easter morning, and the muted sky of early spring offered scant relief to our tenebrous room. On our side of the house a gnarled and ancient oak tree spread its reach across the back facade of the house as if to shade and protect us. One of the massive branches of its principal fork reached invitingly right up to our window to offer to take us wherever we wanted to go. This great limb, with circumference grander than both of us together, was our stairway to heaven and our secret exit to the ground; it was our biplane in the Great War of our imaginations and a magic carpet to Araby; it was our lookout post and the clubhouse of our most secret fraternal order; it was our secret passageway through the imaginary castle we made of our house. It was our escape from the darkness into the light. "
― Mason West
16 " Reality is the place we need to live, but our imaginations harbor the greatest places to visit! "
17 " There was a time when our greed had not yet surpassed our imaginations as our greatest asset. "
18 " In 30 years Christians will have baptized their picture of Christ. He won't be a nice, banal, meek, and bearded man with softly permed hair. Instead, he will fill our imaginations more solidly, more invasively , more unexpectedly. Christ will become That Man who changes people, someone who jumps off a bumper sticker and mediocre praise songs and into lives. "
19 " That we leave our homes, that we step through our doors to the world, that we travel our whole lives not because we want to collect exotic T-shirts, not because we want to consume foreign adventure the same Western way we consume plastic and Styrofoam and LCD TVs and iPads, but because it has the power to renew us—not the guarantee, not the promise, just the possibility. Because there are places our imaginations can never construct for us, and there are people who we will never meet but we could and we might. It reminds us that there is always reason to begin again. "
― Stephen Markley , Tales of Iceland or "Running with the Huldufólk in the Permanent Daylight"
20 " Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like. "
― Billy Graham , Billy Graham in Quotes
