Pastoral Resources

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our 'accepting' and 'willing' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.