Jodi Picoult

"In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future."

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

"Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed ..."

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

"It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you."

Jodi Picoult

Imagination

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Orison Swett Marden

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Joseph Addison

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Jessamyn West

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

Duane Michals

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Theodor Geisel

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Calvin Trillin

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Pablo Picasso

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Michelangelo

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

George S. Patton

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

L. Frank Baum

Imagination rules the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Paul Gauguin

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Lewis Carroll

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

Maya Angelou

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; get my work done; try to love somebody; and have the courage to accept their love in return".

Maya Angelou

David Icke

"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground".

David Icke

Life

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

William Wallace

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything in life is luck.

Donald Trump

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

Garrison Keillor

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Richard Bach

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E. B. White

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I love life because what more is there.

Anthony Hopkins

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

John Burroughs

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

Charles M. Schulz

Henry Ellis

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on".

Henry Ellis

Elizabeth Gilbert

"In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices."

Elizabeth Gilbert

Friendship

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Elbert Hubbard

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Pam Brown

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Leo Buscaglia

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Arnold H. Glasow

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

George Washington

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Alice Duer Miller

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

Alice Duer Miller

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine


Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Muhammad Ali

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Katherine Mansfield

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Plutarch

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Thomas A. Edison

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Robert Brault

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

George MacDonald

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Alice Duer Miller

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Mignon McLaughlin

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Epicurus

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

John Leonard

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Marlene Dietrich

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Oprah Winfrey

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

Emil Ludwig

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Samuel Pepys

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Plautus

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

George Santayana

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Toni Morrison

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Francesco Guicciardini

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

William Blake