"When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy."

-- Charles Horton Cooley

#Strong Quotes #Hate Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“You just can't wake up out of bed and think you can figure out a gym. You definitely need some personal training.”

Source : Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. July 14, 2014.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
“It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, you must imagine your body falling out of that window. If there's a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there's a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These excercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance.”

Source : "Girl, Interrupted". Book by Susanna Kaysen, 1994.
“God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development.”
“Hawaii doesn't win many games in the United States.”
“When I talk about God, I'm not necessarily talking about religion. To me, God is the energy and light that each of us carries.”

Source : Juanes (2013). “Chasing the Sun”, p.266, Penguin
“My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.”
“Today in many western countries, nobody dares question the Holocaust whose nature is questionable. According to the reports I have received, in America if people decide to write something against homosexuality on the basis of psychological and sociological principles, they will be prevented from publishing their work. How is it that these people feel obligated to respect freedom of expression?”

Source : Speech at Imam Khomeini Naval Academy in Noshahr, english.khamenei.ir. September 17, 2012.

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