Chinua Achebe
Novelist, Poet
"People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck."
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Rising Up
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Nhat Hanh
Zen Master, Author
"Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil."
Ramana Maharshi
Spiritual Teacher
"The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up."
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"The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering all over and then I would feel it rising up in me again, and the glittering white torture chamber tiles under my feet and over my head and all four sides closed in and squeezed me to pieces."
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"Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure."
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"It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window."
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