Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

—George Bernard Shaw

About George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman...

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He who has never hoped can never despair.

—George Bernard Shaw

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

—George Bernard Shaw

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

—George Bernard Shaw

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

—George Bernard Shaw

We al have family disfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

—Charles F. Kettering

Memory feeds imagination.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

—James Hillman

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For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

—James Hillman

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