Father in Heaven, whenthethoughtof Thee wakesinour hearts, let it not
awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay,
but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly
smile.
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Settle it therefore in your minds, as a maxim never to be effaced or forgotten, that atheism is an inhuman, bloody, ferocious system, equally hostile to every useful restraint and to every virtuous affection; that, leaving nothing above us to excite awe, nor round us to awaken tenderness, it wages war with heaven and with earth: its first object is to dethrone God, its next to destroy man.
robert hallLifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches — They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter. All about them The cold, familiar wind — Now the grass, tomorrow the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf One by one objects are defined — It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance — Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken.
william carlos williamsA perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.
huangbo xiyunThat one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.
jorge luis borgesLife is more than thought: what a man feels, and what his senses awaken in him, are more indispensable to his life’s fullness than subsequent reflection on their significance. Both Stirner and Nietzsche have elaborated Faust’s opening speech in which he bemoans his wasted years in academia: this speech is Goethe’s own impeachment of Kant and Hegel . Philosophy proceeds always under the risk of making a fetish of thinking.
john carrollBeing, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.
johann georg hamannIf I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?
david hilbertWhen we dead awaken. ... We see that we have never lived.
henrik ibsenSeraphim, The lost hosts awaken
james joyceThere are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.
william mcfeeFrom childhood's hour I have not been As others were I have not seen As others saw I could not bring My passions from a common spring From the same source I have not taken My sorrow I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone And all I lov'd I lov'd alone
edgar allan poeIf you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.
Simone WeilA perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.
Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.
The heritage, the culture, the knowledge of the ancient priestesses, healers, poets, singers, and seers were nearly lost, but a seed survived the flames that will blossom in a new age into thousands of flowers. The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.
starhawkI adjure you, o daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please.
Be careful how you touch her, for she'll awaken, And sleep's the only freedom that she knows.
We celebrate the past to awaken the future.
Now I shall truly awaken again.... This too is destiny....
He who dreamed of democracy , far back in a world of absolutism, was indeed heroic , and we of today awaken to the wonder of his dream .
The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.
bob marley