Awake Quotes - Page 25

• Proclaim the glory of the Atman with the roar of a lion, and impart fearlessness unto all beings by saying, 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Goal, Lions

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Sleep, Burning

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.60, editionNEXT.com

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• For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds. This is the only god that is awake, our own race - "everywhere his hands, everywhere his feet, everywhere his ears, he covers everything." All other gods are sleeping. What vain gods shall we go after and yet cannot worship the god that we see all round us, the Virât? When we have worshiped this, we shall be able to worship all other gods.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Mother, Sleep

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.263, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• The young May moon is beaming, love.
  The glow-worm's lamp is gleaming, love.
  How sweet to rove,
  Through Morna's grove,
  When the drowsy world is dreaming, love!
  Then awake! - the heavens look bright, my dear,
  'Tis never too late for delight, my dear,
  And the best of all ways
  To lengthen our days
  Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!

  Thomas Moore

  Dream, Sweet, Spring

  'Irish Melodies' (1807) 'The young May moon'

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• It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

  Tim O'Brien

  Inspirational, Vivid, Way

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And I felt more like me than I ever had, as if the years I'd lived so far had formed layers of skin and muscle over myself that others saw as me when the real one had been underneath all along, and I knew writing- even writing badly- had peeled away those layers, and I knew then that if I wanted to stay awake and alive, if I wanted to stay me, I would have to keep writing.

  Andre Dubus

  Real, Writing, Years

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• I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that’s beckoning to you.

  Rachel Klein

  Struggle, Down And, Moments

  Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber

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• But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.

  Lu Xun

  Iron, House, Destroying

  Lu Xun (2015). “Diary of a Madman and Other Stories”, p.131, Lu Xun

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• When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

  John Lubbock

  Taken, Sleep, Air

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• It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dream, Truth, Past

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”

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• Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

  Voltaire

  Relationship, Sleep, Knowing

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• God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you.

  Matthew Kelly

  Christmas, Heart, Listening

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• Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates.

  John Locke

  Self, Stupidity, Attention

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely & Hume”, p.103, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I read in announcements of deaths 'peacefully in his sleep' and I wonder how many of those are true. Maybe they are just conventional. I hope they are true whenever I read it of someone. [But] I would rather be awake. Peacefully awake, brim full of some calming drug that was seeing me out of the door, having said my farewells.

  Ian Mcewan

  Farewell, Sleep, Doors

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• My biggest fear, I think falling from a great height. If I want to keep myself awake at night I imagine I'm on the top of the North or South Tower in 9/11, wondering whether I'm going to be burnt to death or I'm going to jump. And I think I would burn to death. And yet I'm impressed by the fact that hundreds didn't.

  Ian Mcewan

  Fall, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• But it's healthy - whatever you can do to keep you fresh and awake. Acting's such a ridiculous job and sometimes you need to look at it like that to get a sort of degree of freshness.

  Eric Bana

  Jobs, Healthy, Acting

  "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Needs, Littles, Sometimes

  "'Bloom County' And Opus The Penguin Return After A 25-Year Hiatus". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 12, 2015.

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• The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.

  Joseph Campbell

  Missing, Alertness, Moments

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• As soon as you awake, in order Lay the actions to be done the coming day.

  Pythagoras

  Order, Done, Action

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• Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.

  Matthew Henry

  Sleep, Up Early, Get Up

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• Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Mind, Suffering

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• Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself.

  Gautama Buddha

  Believe, Law, Sorrow

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• Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Elephants, Sloth, Mud

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• The scriptures say to wake up from the deep sleep of ignorance, remain fully awake, remain conscious, & go on learning.

  Rama Swami

  Ignorance, Sleep, Wake Up

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• Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid nets from the unspun thread.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Dream, Past, Dust

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