#awake

To be awake is everything. ↗

— Gustave Meyrink

#everything

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

#aids #attention #awaken #being #belief

You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#any #awakening #believe #best #discover

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#came #i #kidnapped #me

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#awaken #hold #mind #others #same

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#dream #friends #gain #matters #sake

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. ↗

— James Beattie

#beauty #immortal #tomb

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#how #improvise #interest #learning #music

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#enlightenment #self-realization #spirituality #dreams

Yeah, I got the instructions straight from Seoras. That and a bunch of smart-ass comments about my education being sadly lacking and something about not knowing my arse from my ear or my elbow, and also something about me being a fanny, and I don't know what the hell that means." "Fanny? Like a girl's name?" "I don't think so . . . ↗

— P.C. Cast

#house-of-night #stark #zoey-redbird #education