#awake

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy. ↗

— R.D. Laing

#consciousness #dreams

The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential. ↗

— Jim McDonald

#fear #inner-peace #personal-growth #self-awareness #life

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition. ↗

— James Allen

#help-self #quotes #quotes-i-love #quotes-on-life #quotes-that-make-sense

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#art #awaken #creative #creative expression #expression

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

— Patty Hearst

#came #i #kidnapped #me

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#awaken #awakens #inside #must #seldom

I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#bit #church #i #leaders #look

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#dramatic #education #effects #following #human

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep. ↗

— Stan Laurel

#awake #dream #find #had #i

Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#class #class consciousness #class struggle #consciousness #general