As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. |
comfort was allowed to come to them rare, welcome, unsought: a gift like joy. |
He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral. |
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. |
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. |
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. |
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. |
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle. |
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. |
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end |
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end |
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. |
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. |
Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. |
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. |