#awaken

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. ↗

— Isoroku Yamamoto

#done #fear #fill #giant #him

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

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

A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade and then another, can she locate the actual, historical stream, see the setting of her dreaming private life—the nation, the city, the neighborhood, the house where the family lives—as an actual project under way, a project living people willed, and made well or failed, and are still making, herself among them. I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#childhood #history #memory #dreams

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

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#awakens #back #belongs #go #mtv

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it. ↗

— Robert Musil

#deny #more #nothing #perverse #possibilities

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them. ↗

— Robert Musil

#actuality #along #always #average #awakens