"Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't."

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"The cure for sorrow is to learn something."

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"It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself."

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"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."

Edward Abbey, American Author

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"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."

John Adams, American President

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"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American Poet

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"The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older."

Chris Van Allsburg, American Author

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"At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration."

Chris Van Allsburg, American Author

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"You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning."

"You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you."

"When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given."

"We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music."

"The cure for sorrow is to learn something."

"It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself."

"The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act."

"You don't have to get it right the first time."

"Isolation is a dream killer."

"Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do."

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"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

"Science does not know its debt to imagination."

"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."

"Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute."

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."

"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."

"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."

"The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older."

"At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration."