This is the third in our series of quotations. Our first, Thoughts for Inspiration, Courage, And Love was the October 2001 newsletter. All You Need is Love followed in February 2002.
They have been among our most popular newsletters. I've chosen creativity for the third subject because I feel the importance of recognizing that every living being is creative. We may not all paint, sing, write, or practice other arts, but we all create the greatest artworks in existence, our own lives. The following quotes have helped me to connect more deeply to the source of my own creativity. May they guide you as well.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. It is the preview
of life's coming attractions."
- Albert Einstein
Before you can do something that you've never done, you have to be able to imagine it is possible." - Jean Shinoda Bolen
"The event of creation did not take place so many eons ago, astronomically or biologically speaking. Creation is taking place every moment of our lives." -David Suzuki
"Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?" -Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
"He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration." -Al-Ghazali
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." -Joseph Campbell
"The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic." -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." -Thomas Edison
"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you're not." -author unknown
"Wherever you are is the entry point." -Kabir
"He that will not sail 'til all dangers are over must never put out to sea." -Thomas Fuller
"Moments of Truth are when idle wishes become appointments on
your calendar."
-author unknown
"If you don't know how you feel, you won't know what you want." -Barbra Scher
"...ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full." -John 16:24
"For behold, the kingdom of God is within you." Luke 17
"If nature puts a burden on a man by making him different, it
also gives him a power."
-John Lame Deer
"The soul never thinks without a mental picture." -Aristotle
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." -Edgar Allan Poe
"Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream." -Robert Greenleaf
"I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head." -Jack Nicklaus
"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy." -Samuel Butler
"May you live all the days of your life." -Jonathan Swift