Man Is Not Worried by Real Problems, but by Imagined Anxieties – Epicurus

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it's to imagine what is possible. — bell hooks

bell hooks

bell hooks argues that art should not stop at documenting reality, however honestly. Instead, it must move one step further and open a window onto possibility, suggesting that creativity is not only reflective but transf...

Anxiety is just a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. — Arthur Somers Roche

Arthur Somers Roche

Arthur Somers Roche frames anxiety as water: not a flood at first, but a “thin stream” that quietly moves through the mind. That image matters because it suggests anxiety often begins as something subtle—an uneasy questi...

No amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future. — Umar ibn al-Khattab

Khattab

Umar ibn al-Khattab draws a bright line between two common mental burdens: guilt about what has already happened and worry about what might happen. His point is not that the past and future are unimportant, but that our...

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. — Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso’s jab—“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”—is less a literal dismissal than a provocation about what humans value.

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety. — Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra frames imagination as a neutral force whose value depends on its direction. In one sense, imagination is the mind’s simulator: it can invent possibilities that do not yet exist, letting us rehearse outcomes...

We are such stuff as dreams are made on. — William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s “We are such stuff as dreams are made on” comes from The Tempest (c. 1611), where Prospero reflects on how quickly spectacles—and lives—vanish.