As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.
Jim HensonRead
If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.
Interpretation
Life and people are inherently good, promoting a positive outlook.
In this quote, Jim Henson expresses a belief in the fundamental goodness of life and humanity. He suggests that maintaining a positive approach helps us appreciate the beauty in life and the goodness in people, encouraging an optimistic perspective that can inspire and uplift others.
In practice
Use this quote in a motivational speech to inspire positivity.
As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.
No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.
The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
The only way the magic works is by hard work. But hard work can be fun.
The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.
There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.
It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.
Being able to afford everything you desire is not, by any means, the worst thing that can happen to you. But, depressingly, and more profoundly, neither is it the best.
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems to be close to the heart of that mystery. I know no more now than I ever did about the far side of death as the last letting-go of all, but now I know that I do not need to know, and that I do not need to be afraid of not knowing. God knows. That is all that matters.
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