“Sometimes you want something you consider impossible with such great desire and sincerity that the road and the vehicle that will take you there suddenly appear and take you from the most impossible place to your most impossible dream!”
“We are obviously not awake during dream sleep and yet we have some consciousness of the events taking place in the mind. The memory we form of the last dream fragments before we wake up indicates that some consciousness was "on.”
Source: The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
“Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plain and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.”
“We plant seeds in the ground
And dreams in the sky,
Hoping that, someday, the roots of one
Will meet the upstretched limbs of the other.
It has not happened yet.”
Source: Not Go Away Is My Name
“Together, we are a tribe of eyes that look upward,
Even as we stand on uncertain ground.
The earth beneath us moves, quiet and wild,
Its boundaries shifting, its muscles wavering.
The dream of sky is indifferent to all this,
Impervious to borders, fences, reservations.
The sky is our common home, the place we all live.
There we are in the world together.”
Source: Not Go Away Is My Name
“Traditions stifle imagination. They are the invisible destroyer of dreams.”
Source: CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field
“She thought about telling him that knowing what you want is its own kind of curse. Because when else are you so aware that you're never going to get it? Not knowing meant possibility and dreaming and hopes.”
Source: The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic
“By a pretty, untranslatable pun, Traum (the German for a dream) and trauma were almost indistinguishable in the Vienna which was at home to both.”
Source: Dream Story
“What if this reality is a dream, and when we die, we actually wake up?”
“When dreams seem out of reach, persevere. One by one, they will come to you.”
Source: Book Club Murder in Kingfisher Falls