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Quote by Thomas Merton
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imaginat

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness. – Thomas Merton

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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. – Thomas Merton

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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. – Thomas Merton

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The source and center of all mans creative power… is his power of making images, or the power of imagination. – Robert Collier

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The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. Its 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

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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. – H. L. Mencken

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Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. – Mike Krzyzewski

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