Awake Quotes - Page 3

• We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Sleep, Understanding

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Lying, Sleep, Awake At Night

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

  Alexander Pope

  Memories, Brain, Chains

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• Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

  Thomas Traherne

  Morning, Father, Angel

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

  William Wyler

  Horse, Lying, Night

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• If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Flower, Men

  Anima Poetae, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1895)

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• And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

  Thomas Moore

  Nature, Flower, Heart

  Thomas Moore (1845). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Etc”, p.174

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• Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, Going To Sleep

  Victor Hugo (1898). “From exile, and after the fall of the Empire”

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• You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

  James Daly

  Morning, Jobs, Lying

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• Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Lonesome, Hard

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• When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

  George Saunders

  Stories, World, Want

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• A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Good Morning, Good Night, Good Day

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• Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Witty, Funny Life, Lying

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• Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Friendship, Faith, Lying

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• Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick without their knowing it. You therefore flatter them. And what happens? They laugh at you. They dance upon their own graves and at last they die. Your delicacy is cruelty, your flatteries are poisons you are a murderer. Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumber from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God we will not.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Names, Knowing

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• If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.

  Andrew Harvey

  Inspirational, Beauty, Broken Heart

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• Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Awakening, Becoming

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• For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.

  Heraclitus

  Cosmos

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• Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring.

  C. J. Dennis

  Nature, Morning, Laughter

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• Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Believe In Yourself, Giving

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• Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.

  Maxine Greene

  Thinking, Alive, Consciousness

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• God grant me grace my prayers to say:
  O God! preserve my mother dear,
  In strength and health for many a year;
  And O! preserve my father too,
  And may I pay him reverence due;
  And may I my best thoughts employ
  To be my parents' hope and joy;
  And O! preserve my brothers both
  From evil doings, and from sloth,
  And may we always love each other,
  Our friends, our father, and our mother,
  And still, O Lord, to me impart
  An innocent and grateful heart,
  That after my last sleep I may
  Awake to thy eternal day! Amen.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mother, Brother, Prayer

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1880). “The Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”

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• There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

  Heraclitus

  Men, World, Common

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• They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

  T. S. Eliot

  Voice, Speak, Awareness

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence

  Antonio Machado

  Running, Dream, Heart

  Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Antonio Machado”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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