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I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life. -- Dodie Smith
A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings. -- Susie Orbach
You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom. -- Bernardine Dohrn
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What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future. -- Elizabeth Bibesco
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. -- Philip Roth
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible. -- Wayne Dyer
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings. -- William Shakespeare
Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings. -- Mason Cooley
Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings -- Jocelyn Murray
Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings. -- Jocelyn Murray
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings. -- Baruch Spinoza
Your imaginings can have as much power over you as your reality, or even more. -- Charles Tart
Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. -- Philip Roth
Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something. -- Ken Robinson
...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself. -- Dodie Smith
Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings. -- Robert Genn
With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings. -- Robert Walser
Without time as a reference, the mind sits idly by and wanders into the ways of dark imaginings and evil works ~Hecate" -- M.L. Stephens
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom. -- Bernardine Dohrn
...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much. -- Robert Ludlum
Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings. -- James Russell Lowell
This fraternity... makes it possible... for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings. -- Benedict Anderson
Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings? -- D. H. Lawrence
Meditation transports one from the transient world of matter to the real world of dreamings, visions, and imaginings where idea is and concepts are born. -- Walter Russell
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. -- Max Ehrmann
If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot. -- Brenda Ueland
Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings. -- Belinda Peregrin
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I have lain long here in your mind, longer than any nightmare has before me. I have sunk my roots into your worst imaginings and feasted on your memories. I know you, child. -- J. Aleksandr Wootton
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves. -- Emile Durkheim
If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings -- Fernando Pessoa

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