Awake Quotes - Page 39

• We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Apathy, Needs

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• In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

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• I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.

  Steve Vai

  Home, School, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never sleep on the plane. I have to be awake and using my mind power to keep it in the air

  Jen Lancaster

  Sleep, Air, Mind

  Jen Lancaster (2010). “My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is t he New Black; Or, A Culture-Up Manifesto”, p.34, Penguin

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• When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.

  Celia Thaxter

  Morning, Children, Flower

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• To be on Coast to Coast, you have to be willing to stay awake in the middle of the night. But in return you get a great audience of millions of listeners all across the nation.

  George Noory

  Night, Return, Middle

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• And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

  Libba Bray

  Pain, Believe, Ignorance

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• The rules for reading yourself to sleep are easier to follow than are the rules for staying awake while reading. Get into bed in a comfortable position, make sure the light is inadequate enough to cause slight eyestrain, choose a book that is either terribly difficult or terribly boring-in any event, one that you do not really care whether you read or not-and you will be asleep in a few minutes. Those who are experts in relaxing with a book do not have to wait for nightfall. A comfortable chair in the library will do any time

  Mortimer Adler

  Book, Reading, Sleep

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You’re three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

  Mary Karr

  Moving, Kids, Feet

  "Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No. 1". Interview with Amanda Fortini, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

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• Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

  Novalis

  Philosophy, Waking, Kind

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.155, SUNY Press

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• The beauty of being foreign is that it snaps you awake.

  Pico Iyer

  Snaps

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• Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think its about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.

  Krista Tippett

  Buddhist, Hurt, Real

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• Senator Kerry recovering very nicely after having shoulder surgery. The doctors said the senator was fully awake, lucid and joking after the surgery was done, but cautioned that that was just the drug. He went back to his boring self soon afterward.

  Jay Leno

  Doctors, Self, Drug

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• If nothing else will do to sever me from my sins, Lord, send me such sore and trying calamities as shall awake me from earthly slumbers. It must always be best to be alive to Thee, whatever be the quickening instrument.

  Robert E. Murray

  Trying, Slumber, Alive

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• That's when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you're awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.

  Adam Braun

  Thinking, Magic, World

  Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold
  Are but a cheat contrived by men of old
  Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust
  And died in baseness-and their law is dust.

  Al-Maʿarri

  Men, Dust, Law

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• As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.

  David Nicholls

  Morning, Lying, Mean

  "David Nicholls, the man who made a nation cry" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.

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• Honestly, I just want to keep people awake. Or at least give you one joke to go to bed with.

  Jimmy Fallon

  People, Giving, Bed

  "Jimmy Fallon Dishes on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 20, 2009.

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• What can books of men that wive
  In a dragon-guarded land,
  Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
  Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
  Do, but awake a hope to live...?

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Hope, Art

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• The coyotes made too much noise last night and kept me awake. Please eradicate these annoying animals.

  Dave Barry

  God, Animal, Night

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• At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Dream, Insane

  'Easter-Day' (1850) l. 479

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• For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.

  Herman Melville

  Death, Heart, Sleep

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• The fish are naked.
  The fish are always awake.
  They are the color of old spoons
  and caramels.

  Anne Sexton

  Color, Naked, Spoons

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• If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.

  Cyril Connolly

  Morning, Lying, Night

  Cyril Connolly (1946). “The Condemned Playground”

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• this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making,
  sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake,
  this blessing love gives again into our arms.

  Galway Kinnell

  Children, Memories, Blessing

  "After Making LoveWe Hear Footsteps" l. 21 (1980)

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