#awake

The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature. ↗

— George Richards Minot

#awakening #been #blended #considered #courts

You have to be awake at 6 a.m., when everyone else is asleep. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#awake #else #everyone #you

Our physical world seems ready and able to accommodate the needs of the spiritually awakened new Superhuman. The constraints or demands of our material world are not the real problem; it is our own spiritual awareness and philosophical wisdom that is lagging behind. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

#awareness #conscious-evolution #future-generations #global-awareness #modern-society

Do not wait not for old age to wake you up to the true value of each moment. ↗

— Martin Suarez

#awake #enlightenment #life-lessons #old-age #value-of-life

There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric....But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art--he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman. ↗

— Plato

#madness #muse #poetry #soul #art

I… What are you saying, Zsadist?" she stammered, even though she'd heard every word. He glanced back down at the pencil in his hand and then turned to the table. Flipping the spiral notebook to a new page, he bent way over and labored on top of the paper for quite a while. Then he ripped the sheet free. His hand was shaking as he held it out. "It's messy." Bella took the paper. In a child's uneven block letters there were three words: I LOVE YOU Her lips flattened tight as her eyes stung. The handwriting got wavy and then disappeared.   "Maybe you can't read it," he said in a small voice. "I can do it over."   She shook her head. "I can read it just fine. It's… beautiful." "I don't expect anything back. I mean… I know that you don't… feel that for me anymore. But I wanted you to know. It's important that you knew. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#love #lover-awakened #z #zsadist #beauty

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#beauty #gentle #voice #beauty

Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#aware #dream #ears #self #dreams

There is life, and there is death, and in between there is me. Please don’t wake me up. 
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#awareness #death #life #sleep #wake

Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you. ↗

— Edward Payson Roe

#death