Awakening Quote by Diriye Osman

“i wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. i wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Some feelings are rooted too strongly in the body to exist without it, and this one, desire, is one of them.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“You are transformed and purified through the sufferings, chosen voluntarily, for achieving a greater purpose in life.”

— Awdhesh Singh

“By mindfully choosing our habits, we harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force for serenity, energy, and growth.”

— Gretchen Rubin

“Life, consciousness, self-awareness, he decided in that moment, amounted to a remarkable gift bestowed upon those fortunate enough to have been born. It had…

— G.F. Gustav

“I experienced by observing my own body and my own soul that I sorely needed sin, sorely needed concupiscence, needed greed, vanity, and the…

— Hermann Hesse

“The quest for enlightenment illustrates the paradox of desire—the fact that you must have desire to be motivated to transcend being ruled by desire.”

— Paul O'Brien

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The feeling is one born of a too easy satisfaction of natural needs. The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount…

— Bertrand Russell

“the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic life he…

— Leo Tolstoy

“When we drop all of our painful effort to attain something, then suddenly there is spaciousness in our consciousness, a sense of being unobstructed,…

— Anam Thubten

“it was never to accept any theory or system that would involve the sacrifice of any mode of passionate experience. Its aim, indeed, was…

— Oscar Wilde