This world is but a canvas to our imaginations. Henry David Thoreau

I know there is strength in the differences between us.
I know there is comfort where we overlap. Ani Difranco

Are you complete in yourself? [The root] answers, “No, my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves and I shall die.” So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual. Edward Everett