Dante

“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein