Awake Quotes - Page 37

• If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Men, Unwilling

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• Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.

  Philip Doddridge

  Race, Soul, Vigor

  Philip Doddridge, John Doddridge HUMPHREYS (1839). “Scriptural Hymns ... New and corrected edition, containing many hymns never before printed. Edited ... by ... J. D. Humphreys, etc”, p.232

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• Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten. The living sap of today outgrows the dead rind of yesterday. The hand entrusted with power becomes, either form human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continued oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot; only by unintermitted agitation can a people be sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.

  Wendell Phillips

  Hands, Yesterday, People

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• Your job, work, life assignment must be the spark that fuels your fire. It must be a passion that you pursue. You must want it enough to do it for free. You must be willing to stick with it, taking the ups and downs, giving it all that you are for as long as you can! You’ve got to taste it, smell it, know it whether you are awake or asleep. If you do not have a lustful passion for your work, you really need to find something else to do.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Jobs, Passion, Fire

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour”, Simon and Schuster

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• Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup
  Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.

  Omar Khayyam

  Dry, Littles, Cups

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.10, University of Virginia Press

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• We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Photography, Art, Thinking

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• I think our lives are surely but the dreams
  Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres,
  Who as we die, do one by one awake.

  Edgar Saltus

  Dream, Thinking, Dwelling

  Edgar Saltus (1906). “Vanity Square: A Story of Fifth Avenue Life”

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• June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?

  Carl Bernstein

  Morning, Men, June

  Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein (2012). “All the President's Men”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true.

  Leslie Charteris

  Laughter, Believe, Fighting

  "The Last Hero".

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• Aren't memories just dreams we have when we're awake?

  Ze Frank

  Dream, Memories, Just A Dream

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• We are most asleep when awake.

  Paul Reps

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• Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces under the word Charity. But God can give a third. He can awake in man, towards Himself, a supernatural Appreciative love. This is of all gifts the most to be desired. Here, not in our natural loves, nor even in ethics, lies the true centre of all human and angelic life. With this all things are possible.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Men, Two

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• Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is his great device to keep them so. He does not care what we do if he can do that. We may sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never concern himself about us, if we don't wake anybody up. But if we awake the sleeping sinner he will gnash on us with his teeth. This is our work - to wake people up.

  Catherine Booth

  Song, Sweet, Prayer

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• One thought cannot awake without awakening others.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Awakening

  "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880-1893.

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• The only dreams that matter are the ones you have when you're awake.

  John O'Callaghan

  Dream, Matter

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• Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture — the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us — has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you.

  Edward Hirsch

  Morning, Distance, Sleep

  Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.

  Christopher Smart

  Paper, Sun, Desks

  Horace, Christopher Smart (1819). “The Works of Horace”, p.235

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• Be there for your children. Sit on the bed and enjoy the late-night talks—try to stay awake! Pray for the Lord to inspire you. Forgive often. Choose your battles. Testify frequently of Jesus Christ and His goodness and of the Restoration. And most of all, let them know of your trust in the Lord.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Jesus, Children, Night

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• Share ownership of your ideas. The more people who lie awake in bed thinking about your idea, the better.

  Scott Belsky

  Lying, Thinking About You, Ideas

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• If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized.

  Doris "Granny D" Haddock

  Meaningful, Two, Splits

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• You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Bored, Soul, Senses

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• If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.

  Martha Stout

  Pain, Acting, Demand

  Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.68, Harmony

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• Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.

  Ajahn Chah

  Effort, Meditation, Overcoming

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• Anyone can build a building that protects people from heat, sun and cold. What I am determined to do is to make a stage where people can be sexier and more brilliant, a place where they can awake smarter.

  Philippe Starck

  People, Design, Sun

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• [Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

  Ronald Reagan

  Writing, Reform, Care

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