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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom...

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

Quote by Frank Herbert about change

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

Quote by Paracelsus about happiness, dream

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...

Quote by Walter Pater about beauty, literary critic, common sense, sense, wisdom, art, magic, love

...if these dreams are shadows of God reflected into knowledge, why God’s shadows are dreams? Only because you can wake up from a dream and all these shadows always wake up in an infinite echo which depicts God? If even God’s shadows can wake up,...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about dream, god, infinite, knowledge

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these...

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.

Quote by Radclyffe Hall about language, emotions, body, mind, spirit

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is...

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

Quote by James Maxwell Anderson about literature, heroism, tragedy

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's...

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Quote by Giacomo Puccini about inspiration, man

When one flower blooms, spring awakens everywhere.

When one flower blooms, spring awakens everywhere.

Quote by John O'Donohue about flowers

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