Awake Quote by Anonymous

“But if you can fix some conception of a true human state of life to be striven for — life, good for all men,…

— John Ruskin

“Now in the earthly likenesses of justice and temperance and all other prized possessions of the soul there dwells no luster; nay, so dull…

— Plato

Possess purity in an eminent degree, and jealously preserve this fragrant flower. I earnestly desire to see you shine by the brilliancy of this…

— Paul of the Cross

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple…

— George Eliot

Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the…

— Herman Melville

I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like…

— Charlotte Bronte

“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my regal and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Tell me, sweet lord, what is ’t that takes from thee Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden sleep? Why dost thou bend thine eyes…

— William Shakespeare

“When evening comes, I return to my home, and I go into my study; and on the thresh-hold, I take off my everyday clothes,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and…

— Robert Dale Owen

What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!

— Edward Young

“Such the Lord calls us to be—naked of finery, naked of vanity, wrenched from our sins, bearing only the wood of life, aiming only…

— Jim C. Cunningham