Tag: Imagination

To Unlock Your Day, These Eleven Quotes Are Enough

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Motivational Quotes, Personal Development, Personal Growth
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‘Change begins with individuals, and it begins with imagination. It begins with a different story which succeeds in capturing the imagination more effectively than the now-crumbling old story.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Whatever journey we imagine ourselves to be on, myth and fairy tales can inform our sense of what is possible, and enable us not just to cope with life’s challenges, but to live more intensely, and more richly, in the world.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Don’t maim yourself trying to fit into the glass slipper which was made for someone else.’- Sharon Blackie

‘There is something in us which is always seeking new frontier, which requires an enigma that can’t be easily penetrated.’- Sharon Blackie

‘In a state of awe we feel humbled. In a state of wonder we feel possible.’- Sharon Blackie

‘You can learn to belong anywhere … if you choose. It’s an act of creation, and like all acts of creation, it’s also an act of love, and an enormous leap of faith.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Above all, open the windows wide: break down the barriers, and let the inside out, and the outside in.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Always look for the small beauties beneath surface ugliness- the crows holding a colloquium in the middle of a busy, fume-filled traffic island.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Beauty is a body bowed from the weight of a life fully lived. Beauty is hair bleached in the light of a life fully loved. Beauty is the angular, bony edges of a life fully risked.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Simple living is often a more radical choice … When we slow down and live more simply, we use fewer resources- both our own and the planets.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Apprenticeship requires humility: a little-valued quality in a world hell-bent on glory. All the best fairy-tale heroines knew it to be true: sometimes it’s okay to say that you’re not quite there yet.’- Sharon Blackie

This Is The Root Of All Evil

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth 
Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, on 'the root of all evil.' 
He said, ''The main misfortune, the root of all evil to come, was loss of the confidence in the value of one's own opinion. People imagined that it was out of date to follow their own moral sense, that they must all sing in chorus, and live by other people's notions, notions that were crammed down everybody's throat.''

From the quote above, permit me to ask you the following questions:

Do you value your own opinion? Do you believe that it is out of date to follow your own moral sense? Are you just following the crowd? Are you living by other people's notions?

Difficult questions, right? Maybe, maybe not. It depends on what you want for yourself. If you want to make a difference in your life, in the lives of those around you, 
you must value your own opinion.
you must follow your own moral sense. 
you must sing your own song. 
and you must not forget who you are, what you want, and where you want to go.