Awake Quotes

• Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Morning, Creativity

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  History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

  James Joyce

  Truth, History, Trying

  Ulysses (1922)

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• How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

  Plato

  Inspirational, Dream, Philosophical

  Plato “Writings of Plato”, Lulu.com

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• Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Gratitude, States

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2014

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  Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Motivational, Time

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• Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Sleep, Challenges, Littles

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

  Roger Babson

  Dream, Wide Awake, Persons

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• My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive.

  Robert Breault

  Thank God, Gone, Reflexes

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• Go and preach to all, 'Arise, awake, sleep no more: within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries. Believe this, and that power will be manifested.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Believe, Sleep

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3026, Manonmani Publishers

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• Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Dream

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.170, Yale University Press

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• One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted. "No, I am not a teacher." "Then what are you?" asked the student exasperated. "I am awake," Buddha replied.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Teacher, Buddhist

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• An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.

  Hafez

  Heart, Light, Sky

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• People need to wake up and realize that life doesn't wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Life, Motivational, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2013

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• Without collective awakening the catastrophe will come. I think people in the mass media, journalists, film makers and others, you can contribute to the collective awakening if you are awake and then your life will embody that awakening.

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Media, People

  "The role of journalists and corporates in combating climate change" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

  Carl Sagan

  Education, Atheist, Thinking

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.430, Ballantine Books

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• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wise, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Change, Encouraging, Spiritual

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• I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Every Person Has a Purpose" by Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2009.

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.

  Wayne Dyer

  Beauty, Spiritual, Appreciation

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jan 27, 2016

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• You know that place between sleep and awake? The place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you... Peter Pan. That's where I'll be waiting.

  Julia Roberts

  Dream, Book, Love You

  "Fictional character: Tinkerbell". "Hook", www.imdb.com. December 8, 1991.

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• Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Buddhist

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Arundel MSS British Museum (transl. Edward MacCurdy in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. 1)

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• I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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