#awaken

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#become #being #child #differently #look

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

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

#demons #ghosts #hand #i #inside

I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#album #angeles #awakening #circle #city

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. ↗

— Anatole France

#afterwards #art #awakening #curiosity #minds

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awakening #beautiful #beauty #book #confessions

If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once. ↗

— Karl Radek

#basis #bourgeois #certainly #country #disappear

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

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If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#day #every #every day #grow #growing

Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself. ↗

— Francis Wright

#itself #powers #respect #will