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awaken
«A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
awaken, Awakening The, Born, event, Into the Unknown, in any event, single, slowly, stranger, The Awakening, totally, To Live, unknown, unknowns, within
«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.»
Author: William McFee
| Keywords:
awaken, galvanize, galvanizes, invalid, invalids, on the other hand, staggering
«A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.»
Author: Agnes Repplier
(Essayist, Writer)
| Keywords:
awaken, barbarously, downfall, excite, gleam, handled, in harmony, previous, transient
«Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.»
«There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
actual, amuses, amusing, awaken, density, equivalent, fiction, fiction writer, grasp, guise, offers, Real Genius, something else, The Works, unable, writers
«It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
art, Art of, awaken, Awakening The, creative, expression, is, joy, knowledge, supreme, teacher, The, The Awakening, The Teacher, this art, To Joy
«Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realize that they need not fear brute force, if they would but know the soul within.»
«A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words, ?Who can this be? Even the wind and the waves obey him.?»
«Softly and kindly remind yourself, ''I cannot own anything.'' It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to improve your financial picture, worry about investments, and plan how to acquire more and more. It is a universal principle which you are part of. You must release everything when you truly awaken. Are you letting your life go by in frustration and worry over not having enough? If so, relax and remember that you only get what you have for a short period of time. When you awaken you will see the folly of being attached to anything.»
Author: Wayne Dyer
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
attached, awaken, financial, folly, frustration, frustrations, go by, investments, keep in, kindly, letting, more and more, period, period of time, relax, release, remind, softly