Top 100 Awaken Quotes
#1. Theology, I am persuaded, derives its initial impulse from a religious wavering; for there is quite as much, or more, that is mysterious and calculated to awaken scientific curiosity in the intercourse with God, and it [is] a problem quite analogous to that of theology.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#2. In order to succeed in it (prayer), it should be done when we first awaken, when our whole being is calm and recollected. We need to make our meditation before anything else.
Peter Julian Eymard
#3. 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
#4. We all have remarkable capacities asleep inside of us. If only we bothered ourselves to awaken them.
Joshua Foer
#5. When we fight back with joy, we embrace a reality that is more real than what we're enduring and we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, joyful children of God.
Margaret Feinberg
#6. My job [is] to awaken possibility in other people. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it. If they're not shining you get to ask this question: "Who am I being that my children's eyes are not shining?"
Benjamin Zander
#7. The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.
John O'Donohue
#8. Why would anyone want to awaken to the Reality that they're not even here in the first place?
Steve Hagen
#9. The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient beauty of youth, are so apt to awaken in the bosom of the aged.
Lydia M. Child
#10. Let those who want to dance, dance. Let those who can awaken, awake.
Rene Barjavel
#11. Stop looking for something when something has already found you. You have been living with your eyes closed. Awaken, it's there. Take it, it's yours.
Robert M. Drake
#12. If we love unconditionally just like our Creator, we will awaken of the goodness in souls.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#13. Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.
Samuel Johnson
#14. Burn away and burn every burning sorrow that burns you like a burning star and awaken all that you would burn for to burn away every burning scar.
Robert M. Drake
#15. Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at your life or your journey the same way again.
Maria Shriver
#16. Healing is a revolutionary act and we are here to awaken to the true nature of our own souls and the gifts we have to give to the world.
Michael Meade
#17. The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers.
Lu Xun
#18. Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.
Rudolf Steiner
#19. To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.
Mooji
#20. The very moment you begin to seek your Heavenly Father, in that moment, the hope of His light will begin to awaken, enliven, and ennoble your soul. The darkness may not dissipate all at once, but as surely as night always gives way to dawn, the light will come.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#21. The purpose of relationships is to help awaken you to the inherent balance existing within and around you, and to assist you in acknowledging your own magnificence and wholeness.
John F. Demartini
#22. It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
Ellen Glasgow
#23. The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.
Bob Marley
#24. May God's grace awaken the heart of writing in my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#25. Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.
Brian Swimme
#26. To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves.
John Gray
#27. God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
Hermann Hesse
#28. Children could be taught to hear and feel music in their minds rather than just with their ears; how to make them feel music as a thing of movement rather than a dull, lifeless subject; how to awaken a child's sensitivity.
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
#29. As souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find themselves far from heaven
John Updike
#30. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning. The
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#31. When enlightened people are so poor that they cannot help others, if they speak a word to awaken the confused or to resolve a problem, there is also boundless merit in that.
Zicheng Hong
#32. The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33. A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom
Jawaharlal Nehru
#34. Gnostics can awaken to the real state of Illumination only through the understanding and elimination of dreams.
Samael Aun Weor
#35. Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power.
Vironika Tugaleva
#36. Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#37. The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.
Joan Sutherland
#38. Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us long to escape, to have freedom.
Swami Vivekananda
#39. Each morning, when you awaken, promise the dawn that you'll keep your heart as light as a feather. Commit again each night at sunset.
Joann Davis
#40. In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must flow from love to Christ. It is when a sense of personal communion with the Son of God is highest that we shall be most fit for missionary work, either ourselves or to stir up others.
Archibald Alexander
#41. When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect.
Eckhart Tolle
#42. If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers.
Joseph Murphy
#43. Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#44. You have dreamed me into your dream to awaken you from the dreams of life, death and separativity.
Frederick Lenz
#45. The one who comes to know [the eternal truth], will awaken. The one who is wrongly believing will not awaken.
Dada Bhagwan
#46. As you awaken you go beyond the need to perform and achieve when you go beyond it, you begin to develop an increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it. Love becomes what you are.
Wayne Dyer
#47. It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
Buffalo Bill
#48. I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God's expression through me.
Joel S. Goldsmith
#49. That Newton shuddered now [at slavery] is a testimony to they way a strong social movement can awaken a conscience..
Adam Hochschild
#50. We can use our difficulties and problems to awaken our hearts.
Pema Chodron
#51. As long as you have peace in your heart and you can dream of world peace, one day you shall see your dream awaken among all of mankind.
Timothy Pina
#52. It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my thoughts, but benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others.
George MacDonald
#53. A nightmare is something you awaken from, Peter," she had said. "But thoughts and ideas that remain after its terrors have disappeared are something considerably worse.
John Katzenbach
#54. Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.
Eric Hoffer
#55. Understand the suffering of worldly existence.
Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness.
Practice the path of meditation and compassion.
Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.
Gautama Buddha
#56. not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.
Anonymous
#57. We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#58. Don't tell me your name. It's likely to awaken my conscience, and that's the last thing we want.
Julia Quinn
#59. Slow and steady wins the race, only and only if the rabbit, competent, sleeps a while. But, fast and consistency always win it, even if rabbit is awaken.
Syed Ather
#60. Give up being safe and your power chakra will awaken more quickly.
Anodea Judith
#61. To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.
Robert Byrd
#62. The individual has to awaken his intelligence, not through any form of discipline, resistance, compulsion, coercion, but through freedom.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#63. There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage
a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own.
Lauren DeStefano
#64. By the middle to the end of the 1970s, Black Power as we envisioned was a dream deferred. And I was no longer in a position to awaken the minds of the people about what was happening.
Junius Williams
#65. Criticism should awaken our attention, not inflame our anger. We should listen to, and not flee from, those who contradict us. Truth should be our cause, no matter in what manner it comes to us.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#66. In the second training, we develop energy, concentration, and mindfulness. These are the meditative and life tools that enable us to awaken. Without them we simply act out the patterns of our conditioning.
Joseph Goldstein
#67. Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really want to say and it has the power to lift hearts and awaken our souls ... .
James A. Murphy
#68. He told me that soul mates come into our lives at very precise times to inspire and to awaken us to bigger and better ways of looking at the world and interacting with it. We've known each other before, he said, and we will know each other again.
Kate McGahan
#69. On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
David Bowie
David Bowie
#70. Do you realize you can actually listen a person's soul into existence? Your fervent interest in the inner life of those you care for can awaken their dormant powers. The teacher Richard Moss says 'The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.' Offer this gift.
Rob Brezsny
#71. You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.
Lord Buckley
#72. If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
Ramana Maharshi
#73. The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery of life, all life.
Ron Starbuck
#74. The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.
John Lennon
#75. Nor was Mr. Bumble's gloom the only thing calculated to awaken a pleasing melancholy in the bosom of a spectator. There
Charles Dickens
#76. Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.
Jane Austen
#77. It happened every single day in Brooklyn: awaken to fresh glory, fall asleep to blight and ruin.
Kate Christensen
#78. If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
#79. Religion's primary function is to awaken within us the experience of the sublime and to connect us with the mystery of existence.
Adyashanti
#80. I've come to realize that it is much easier to infatuate people with promises, or even to lead them to their own deaths, than it is to awaken them to use their minds.
Zhang Xianliang
#81. And now I awaken, for I am both yours and mine.
Novalis
#82. You and the spirit are no different, there is no separation. You are the spirit and the spirit is you. It has always been this way. Where there are no spirits, there are no people. This is what we must awaken in people.
G.R. Matthews
#83. If only I could rest for a time in quiet pain and awaken new and willing. He is looking forward and I am inward.
Camilla Gibb
#84. Of course, man is also a weak creature with many bad qualities. And it depends on which of his qualities will in a certain social situation and in a certain climate prevail, which qualities will awaken. The totalitarian system was masterful in how it managed to mobilize all the bad qualities.
Judy Woodruff
#85. For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them
Plato
#87. What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.
Julius Sumner Miller
#89. Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.
Carl Jung
#90. When the sun is a bike ride away, I will hear it. It will sound like wind in treetops. I will awaken.
Jerry Spinelli
#91. If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
Eckhart Tolle
#92. There's only one guarantee that Jesus gave: if you can receive and awaken and embody what he is speaking about, then your life will never be the same again. Then you will realize that you're already living in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Adyashanti
#93. If not for tragedy, tyrants, and injustice, there would be nothing to awaken and inspire dormant heroes. There is always a balance. Always.
Steve Maraboli
#94. Curiosity is, and has been from the creation of the world, a master passion. To awaken it, to gratify it by slight degrees, and yet leave something always in suspense, is to establish the surest hold that can be had, in wrong, on the unthinking portion of mankind.
Charles Dickens
#95. That the Father and Son would love sinners that much is beyond our comprehension
but it ought to awaken a response of love and gratitude within our hearts that will change our lives forever!
Dave Hunt
#96. Walk with this tomorrow night. If nothing happens, then
don't come back. Forget about us, this place, but if you feel the
Nightwalker in you awaken, then return to where you belong.
Return to me, and the streets will run red with blood.
Keith Kekic
#97. The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched by it according to his inner self. The words go to the ear, but the true message travels straight to the spirit.
Juliet Marillier
#98. The period of time just before you awaken is the time I have my most creative thoughts and discover the best solutions.
Lisa Marie Presley
#99. When your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green and azure blue come to awaken in you a meadow of delight.
John O'Donohue
#100. The world is awakening and it's not waiting for anyone. You either awaken with it or be left consumed by old concepts and ideas. Do you thrust yourself into the unknown or stay covered in dust that has been hanging around for ages?
Bephyer Parey
