Awake Quotes - Page 4

• I like to see the people awake and alert.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Awareness

  Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti (1954). “22 June to 31 December, 1786”

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• Like a bird with broken wing
  that has traveled through wind for years . . .
  I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .

  Giorgos Seferis

  Inspirational, Heart, Sleep

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• My father says that almost the whole world is asleep, everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to.  He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.

  Meg Ryan

  Father, People, World

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• How does one stay mindful? Where feelings are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Thoughts are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Perceptions are known they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. This is how a monk stays awake.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Feelings, Perception

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• One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Political, Social Activism

  Methodist Student Leadership Conference Address, delivered 1964, Lincoln, Nebraska

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• In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Real, Character

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.79, Bantam Classics

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• Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

  David Whyte

  Gratitude, Attention, Arise

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• What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dream, Interpreting, Ifs

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In order for your dreams to come true, you've got to stay awake.

  Charles Durning

  Dream, Order, Vision

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• Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it: in writing, in art.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Dream, Art, Writing

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• Being fully present isn’t something that happens once and then you have achieved it; it’s being awake to the ebb and flow and movement and creation of life, being alive to the process of life itself.

  Pema Chodron

  Ebb And Flow, Movement, Alive

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

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• An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew

  Michael Bassey

  Creativity, Ignorance, Fire

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• About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Certain, Feels

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• People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Sleep, People

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• We learn more when we hate than when we love, because hate is eternally awake, but love is everlastingly asleep.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Hate, Love Is

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• I stopped drinking when I had children because I wanted to be awake and aware. I did not want to be going, you know, daddy loves you and then drop my head on the table. I do not want to miss anything that they do or say. It is important to me.

  Robin Williams

  Children, Drinking, Love You

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• To begin to use cultural forces for the good of our daughters we must first shake ourselves awake from the cultural trance we all live in. This is no small matter, to untangle our true beliefs from what we have been taught to believe about who and what girls and women are.

  Jeanne Elium

  Girl, Daughter, Believe

  Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.53, Celestial Arts

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• Ain't nothin wrong, ain't nothing right and still I sit and lie awake all night.

  Bradley Nowell

  Lying, Night, Stills

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• Some day we'll awake, have a reformation of the heart, teach our kids honor and kill a few sex psychologists, put boys in high schools with men teachers (not sissies), close all the girls' finishing schools, shoot all the effeciency experts and become a nation of God's people once more.

  Harry S. Truman

  Girl, Teacher, Sex

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• We are a collage of our interests, our influences, our inspirations, all the fragmentary impressions we've collected by being alive and awake to the world. Who we "are" is simply a finely curated catalog of those.

  Maria Popova

  Inspiration, Alive, World

  "Literature is the original Internet". Interview with Max Tholl, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. August 25, 2014.

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• We don't just live in books awake and dreams asleep. We are living stories, you and I, with dreams inside us undeniable, with love to give and people to walk beside.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Dream, Book, People

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.52, Penguin

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• I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Dream, Morning

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• I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.

  Tom Ford

  Lying, Night, Thinking

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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• I love the whole physical thing in films. It keeps me on my toes, it keeps me awake, it keeps me alive. If I'm going to be shooting a movie from 7pm to 7am six nights a week, I best be as physical as possible because then I'll never get tired. Otherwise you sit down, it sounds really weird, but that's the part that wears you out.

  Sharni Vinson

  Tired, Night, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• You can look at what's happened to America in the last years and say a lot of people were asleep. A lot of people were not staying awake and watching what was going on and facing the pain of that and dealing with it.I don't care if the rest of the audience doesn't think along those lines at all, because the audience is a huge spectrum of people, from people who are introspective to people who just want to be scared and have fun, and all the points in between.

  Wes Craven

  Fun, Pain, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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