Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
More Quotes from Mary Wesley:
It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.Mary Wesley
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.
Mary Wesley
I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.
Mary Wesley
I was living at home with my parents and went out with young men who continually put me down, saying, 'Didn't you know that You're so ignorant.'
Mary Wesley
Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.
Mary Wesley
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
Mary Wesley
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Imagination & Visualization Quotes, Life Quotes, Love QuotesBased on Keywords: imagines
If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.
Randall Terry
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
Ayn Rand
If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.
Blake Edwards