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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is the journey that matters, in the end
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To oppose something is to maintain it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Though I am a servant, I am not your servant.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is above all by the imagination
that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone;
it has to be made,like bread,
remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool;
it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay
Gratitude in advance is the most powerful
creative force in the universe.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience,
independent will and creative imagination.
These give us the ultimate human freedom...
The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement
and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fill your heart with the creative power
to accept the past,
decorate the present
and transform the future.
- Osho
Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The mind of man is continuously unfolding
into a greater recognition of its real plan
in the creative order of the Universe.
- Ernest Holmes
Reading, after a certain age,
diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Since new developments are
the products of a creative mind,
we must therefore stimulate and encourage
that type of mind in every way possible.
- George Washington Carver
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life
stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein
The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung
Without this playing with fantasy,
no creative work has ever yet come to birth.
The debt we owe to the play of
the imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung
The question is not whether we will be extremists,
but what kind of extremists we will be...
The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One must be an inventor to read well.
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True art is characterized by an irresistible
urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Physical fitness is not only one of
the most important keys to a healthy body,
it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
- John F. Kennedy
I recognize this in my writing process.
A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights.
I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits.
When I set my keys in the place
I, with practice, always set my keys...
I do not lose them.
In many instances an ordered external structure
can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered,
creative and unbounded inner structure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Adventure is the child of courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child,
and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith
One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Personally, I have fond memories of playing
on slippery rocks on the banks of a rushing river
as a child and hitchhiking in college.
To those who say, "But times are different now,"
I reply that statistically life is much safer now
than in the 1950s, with regard to both crime and accidents.
What has changed is our attitudes.
In those years, a broken leg from falling off a swing
or the back of a tractor was just part of childhood -
an excuse for gathering autographs.
Today that broken leg would be a source
of outrage and probably lawsuits.
I long for a simpler time when life was taken less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We fear the unknown,
perhaps more than we fear anything else,
and yet we are, at heart, adventurers.
We seek to expand our realm of knowledge and dominion.
Perhaps we are attempting to overcome and crush the unknown,
but our duel with the unknown is such a one-sided clash
that we must know in our hearts
that our adventure is no more than a child's game.
Perhaps we hope that the unknown
is like the darkness of a cave
and that the brief light of our adventurer's candle
can illuminate the entire cave.
Nonetheless, the path of the adventurer
is a path of joy, while the way of fear is one of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Maybe life isn't really as complicated
as we make it out to be.
Perhaps a simple child-like attitude would create
a less stressful and happier life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it.
I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consciously adopt the mindset of a young child,
to whom all of life is a grand adventure.
Life is your playground.
Fashion grand castles and sweeping boulevards,
defeat fire-breathing dragons,
leap tall buildings in a single bound.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't prepare the path for the child,
prepare the child for the path.
- Anonymous
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Jealousy is a child of selfishness and distrust.
- Mourning Dove
Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
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