Fantasy is one of the secret doors of the human spirit. It lets us wander, dream, invent, and rehearse another way of being. Sometimes a single imagined world becomes a lantern for real life. ✨ As Abbie Hoffman once said, “Fantasy is the only truth.”

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy. ~ James Joyce

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. ~ Dr. Seuss

We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who will be the perfect fit. It’s just not a reality. ~ Ethan Hawke

Your mind doesn’t know the difference between reality and fantasy. Feed it good thoughts. ~ Zig Ziglar

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. ~ Andy Warhol

Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. ~ Carl Jung

I’ll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It’ll be like a little shell, like an Easter egg shell that’s all decorated. ~ Edie Brickell

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. ~ Maya Angelou

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future. ~ Danielle Steel

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. ~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

If you have enough fantasies, you’re ready, in the event that something happens. ~ Sheila Ballantyne

Hitch your wagon to a star! ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. ~ Max Beerbohm