"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."  --Yoko Ono

"Without consciousness there is nothing. The only way you experience your body and the world of mountains and people, trees and dogs, stars and music is through your subjective experiences, thoughts, and memories. You act and move, see and hear, love and hate, remember the past and imagine the future. But ultimately, you only encounter the world in all of its manifestations via consciousness. And when consciousness ceases, this world ceases as well ... Consciousness is the central fact of your life."  Cristof Koch

"I want to make drawings that move some people. (...) I want to reach the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply and that man feels subtly."  --Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, The Hague, about 21 July 1882

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."  --Vincent van Gogh

"Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player."  --Alice Cooper

How have I peace

Except by subjugating

Consciousness?

And since We’re mutual Monarch

How this be

Except by Abdication —

Me — of Me?

--Emily Dickinson

“Everything begins with consciousness and nothing is worth anything except through it,”  --Albert Camus 

“When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.”--RuPaul

"There is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."  --Amanda Gorman

"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."  --Desmond Tutu

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”  -- Nikola Tesla

Mike Rickseck adds resonance.

“Everybody wants to make an impression, some mark upon the world. Then you think you’ve made a mark on the world if you just get through it, and a few people remember your name. Then you’ve left a mark.”  --Dorian Corey from the film  'Paris is Burning' 

"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."  --Albert Camus 

"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."  --Alfred Adler

"Our heads are round so thought can change direction."  --Francis Picabia 

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."  --Dolly Parton 

"As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move."  --Katharine Hepburn 

“To anybody who has ever questioned your identity – ever, ever, ever, ever – or you find yourself living in the gray spaces, I promise you this: There is indeed a place for us.”  --Ariana DeBose said this during her acceptance speech for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Anita in West Side Story. She was the first Afro-Latina and first out queer woman of color to win an acting Oscar.

"Happiness is a simple, frugal heart."  --Nikos Kazantzakis

“The holy man is he who takes your soul and will and makes them his. When you choose your holy man, you surrender your will. You give it to him in utter submission, in full renunciation.”  --Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov 

“Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…”  --Jonathan Swift, “The Examiner" (1710)

"In the depths of Winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."  --Albert Camus

"There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way."  --Christopher Morley 

"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."  --Ludwig Wittgenstein