Awakening Quotes - Page 31

• Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

  Jack Kemp

  People, Kind, Prove

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• I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 in August - and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.

  Lea Michele

  Spring, August, Years

  "Diva Talk: Chatting with Spring Awakening's Lea Michele Plus News of LuPone, Kritzer and Gravitte". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. November 24, 2006.

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• When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty.

  Jane Smiley

  Art, Honesty, Home

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• The Arab awakening has been, up to now, a lot about freedom from dictatorial regimes - Syria, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, Bahrain and Egypt. But once you got freedom from, then you need freedom to. Freedom from is about destroying things. Freedom to is about constructing things, constructing the rule of law.

  Thomas Friedman

  Egypt, Law, Needs

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• Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Car, Racism, Tragedy

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• If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.

  Radhanath Swami

  Hate, Compassion, Universal Love

  "Bhakti Yoga: In Search of a Lost Love" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2011.

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• Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

  Bill Watterson

  Funny Life, Mistake, Wake Up

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• Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Reality, Ideas, Ego

  H P Blavatsky (2015). “An Abridgement of the Secret Doctrine”, p.39, Quest Books

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• It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.

  H. G. Wells

  Dream, Believe, Future

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Discovery of the Future: Illustrated”, p.41, eKitap Projesi

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• Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies.

  Mark Helprin

  Running, Lonely, Laughter

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

  Frank Herbert

  People, Gentleman, Dies

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.389, Penguin

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• Meditate?” I took my head out from under the pillow, shook dark hair back from my face, and rolled over on my side to look at him. “Excuse me, but the closest I ever got to having a spiritual awakening was dating a yoga instructor. Once.

  Rachel Caine

  Spiritual, Yoga, Dark

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Heat Stroke”, p.14, Allison & Busby

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• Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night is done. You are light and morning.

  Cesare Pavese

  Sweet, Morning, Stars

  Cesare Pavese, “In The Morning You Always Come Back”

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• Well,’ you may ask, ‘how may I know when I am in love?’ . . . George Q. Morris [who later became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, gave this reply]: ‘My mother once said that if you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire to achieve, who inspires you to do your best, and to make the most of yourself, such a young woman is worthy of your love and is awakening love in your heart.

  David O. McKay

  Girl, Mother, Heart

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• Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.

  Lois Lowry

  Dream, Distance, Snow

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Silence, Easy, Hard

  "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, "A Flash of Silence" (p. 109), 1999.

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• Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Rain

  "Rain". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic, www.poemhunter.com.

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• The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.

  Jack London

  Spring, Winter, Silence

  Jack London (2005). “The Call of the Wild - Spotlight Edition”, p.63, Prestwick House Inc

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• Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening.

  Jim C. Hines

  Memories, Book, Kissing

  Jim C. Hines (2013). “Libriomancer”, p.112, Random House

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• Thus in this oneness Jesus Christ is the Mediator, the Reconciler, between God and man. Thus He comes forward to MAN on behalf of GOD calling for and awakening faith, love and hope, and to GOD on behalf of MAN, representing man, making satisfaction and interceding. Thus He attests and guarantees to God's free GRACE and at the same time attests and guarantees to God man's free GRATITUDE.

  Karl Barth

  Gratitude, Jesus, Men

  Karl Barth (1960). “The Humanity of God”, p.47, Westminster John Knox Press

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• How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Deeper

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul

  Kate Chopin

  Dream, Reality, Soul

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.81

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• He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

  Kate Chopin

  Self, World, Casting

  1899 The Awakening, ch.19.

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• Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.

  Jacques Derrida

  Caring, Names, Looks

  Jacques Derrida (2008). “The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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• A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

  Kate Chopin

  Light, Dawn, Way

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.33

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