#con

We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence — yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder. ↗

— António R. Damásio

#consciousness #dreams #sleep #dreams

Don't be a creation of circumstances, create your dreams, take full control of your destiny. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#control #create #creation #destiny #dreams

We just didn't get it. We were weakened and exhilarated at the same time. A paranoiac's nightmare! A narcissist's dream! We didn't know how to feel: flattered or raped. Maybe both. We were puzzling at breakneck speed. ↗

— Steve Toltz

#puzzled #dreams

I have a dream, there will be critical point in the future, where economics and technology will negate each other. ↗

— Toba Beta

#economics #future #negate #technology #dreams

...all these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach writing, cartooning, engineering, to add inches to the biceps and to develop the bust ↗

— Nathanael West

#capitalism #commercialization #conformity #disillusionment #self-perception

Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their dream today will become the realities of tomorrow. ↗

— Wess Stafford

#confidence #dreams #future #dreams

Music is about more than connecting notes. It connects people! ↗

— Michele Jennae

#music #relationships #music

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#absolute #absolute power #allows #belief #clear

I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#doing #i #now #positive #things

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. ↗

— Socrates

#philosophy #nature