"Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination."

-- Betty Smith

#Children Quotes #Believe Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.”

Source : FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 30, 2012
“One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.”
“Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.”

Source : Ezra Taft Benson (1983). “Come unto Christ”, Deseret Book Co
“There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.”

Source : "A Thief’s Journal". Book by Jean Genet, 1949.
“Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like”
“Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.”
“There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.”

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