"There's no need to imagine that you're a wondrous beauty, because that's what you are."

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Source : Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominsummer Madness”, p.13, Macmillan

Tove Jansson

#Needs Quotes #Imagine Quotes #Imagine That Quotes

“English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature should be a discipline, certainly growing from England and France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, and the Native traditions, particularly because those helped form the American canon. Those are our backgrounds. And then we'd be doing it the way it ought to be done. And someday I hope that it will be.”
“Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.”

Source : David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.311, Titan Books
“Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!”
“For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.”

Source : Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.33, B&H Publishing Group
“Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.”
“Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are at risk, regardless of how they got there or whether they know God's name. Sometimes it comes as an extended human hand and sometimes as a bolt from the blue, but either way it opens a door in what looked for all the world like a wall. This is the way of life, and God alone knows how it works.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Jul 02, 2013
“I think I was righteous. I saw myself as the good guy in my own movie. I didn't get into many fights when I was younger, but when I did, they were righteous. I always thought I was defending something good. I fought for friends who couldn't fight for themselves. I was still being selfish and arrogant, but I was focused on what was fair and unfair.”
“Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.”

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