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“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!”
― Lewis Carroll

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.”
― Sandra Dallas

“To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock
in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock
awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock
from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.”
― W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Make the purchase of a Christmas night board game an annual tradition...date the inside of the box and wrap it up as a final Christmas day gift to the whole family once the Dinner dishes have been tackled...”
― Alison May, More Scrumptious Treats For Vintage Housekeepers

“Reality had a disappointing habit of not measuring up to my memories.”
― Jennifer Bradbury, Shift

“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves