#imaginings

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

#experience #facts #formed #imagination #imaginings

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 Jeffrey

#fleeting-thoughts #fragile #hearts #ideas #intangible

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#i #imaginings #life #never #noticed

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#balance #freedom #imaginings #longing #need

If the bishops had not called vain imaginings religion, philosophers would not regard religion as vain imaginings. ↗

— Mirzá Azizu llah-i-Misbáh

#imaginings #philosphers #religion #imagination

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

#awesome responsibility #because #children #create #depends

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

#awesome responsibility #because #children #create #depends