Awaken Quotes
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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
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More Awaken Quotes
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 hall— Rev. Robert Hall, sermon to Baptist meeting, Cambridge, quoted in Charles George Sommers, William R. Williams, Levi L. Hill, ed (1843). The Baptist Library: a republication of standard Baptist works. 2. p. 108.
Lifeless 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 williams— "Spring and All"
One by one the objects are defined It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entranceStill, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken.
william carlos williams— 1923 Spring and All,'Spring and All'.
We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.
Northrop Frye— Chapter Four, p. 83
A 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 xiyun— The Wan Ling Record of Xiu Pei, quoted in Why Lazarus Laughed : The Essential Doctrine, Zen — Advaita — Tantra (2003) by Wei Wu Wei
Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.
Edmund White— "Texas" (p. 128)
That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.
jorge luis borges— Evaristo Carriego (1930) Ch. 2
Life 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 carroll— p. 105 (Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974))
Being, 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 hamann— Briefwechsel, ed. Arthur Henkel (1955-1975), vol. VII, p. 165
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?
david hilbert— Quoted in Mathematical Mysteries : The Beauty and Magic of Numbers (1999) by Calvin C. Clawson, p. 258
When we dead awaken. ... We see that we have never lived.
henrik ibsen— Irene, in Act II
Seraphim, The lost hosts awaken
james joyce— Nightpiece, p. 17
How would your life be different if … You didn't allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day … You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self.
steve maraboli— p. 125 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
There 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 mcfee— "On a Balcony", First lines, in The Atlantic Monthly (January 1920), p. 27
From 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 poe— "Alone", l. 1-8 (written 1829, published 1875).
If 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 Weil— Human Personality (1943, pg. 63)
Jaspers sees the historical meaning of existential philosophy as a struggle to awaken in the individual the possibilities of an authentic and genuine life, in the face of the great modern drift toward a standardized mass society.
— Chapter Two, The Encounter With Nothingness, p. 28
A 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.
— The Wan Ling Record of Xiu Pei, quoted in Why Lazarus Laughed : The Essential Doctrine, Zen — Advaita — Tantra (2003) by Wei Wu Wei
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.
— Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Terre des Hommes (1939)
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.
starhawk— As quoted in Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion (1979) by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow.
I adjure you, o daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please.
— The Bible, Song of Solomon 8:4.
Be careful how you touch her, for she'll awaken, And sleep's the only freedom that she knows.
— Skylark, "Wildflower", Skylark (1972)
We celebrate the past to awaken the future.
— John F. Kennedy, "Remarks at the 25th Anniversary of the Signing of the Social Security Act," Hyde Park, New York August 14, 1960, box 910, Senate Speech Files, John F. Kennedy Papers, Pre-Presidential Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
Now I shall truly awaken again.... This too is destiny....
— Who: The Dragon God
— Notes: The character, long before the battle in which the player kills it, had been absorbed by the Time Devourer, the game's villain. It speaks of being fully consumed and allowing the Time Devourer to awaken so that the player may face it.
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 .
— Louis Sullivan, in "Education" an address to the Architectural League of America, Toronto (1902), later published in Kindergarten Chats (revised 1918) and Other Writings (1947)
The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.
bob marley— The Future is the Beginning: The Words and Wisdom of Bob Marley
