Awake Quotes - Page 40

• When we suddenly awake to the realization that there is no barrier, and never has been, one realizes that one is all things mountains, rivers, grasses, trees, sun, moon, stars, universe are all oneself. There is no longer a division or barrier between myself and others, no longer any feeling of alienation or fear there is nothing apart from oneself and therefore nothing to fear. Realizing this results in true compassion. Other people and things are not seen as apart from oneself but, on the contrary, as one's own body.

  Bruce Lee

  Stars, Moon, Compassion

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• The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sleep, Men, Expectations

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.142

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• Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Light, Self

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• A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Wise, Men, Suspicion

  "Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections)". Book by Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet, 1750.

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• Make your initial contact short and sweet. Five sentences or less, or under 150 words. If someone instant messages you while you're online, go ahead and IM them back if you want. Otherwise, wait twenty-two to twenty-three hours between email contacts for the first few messages. Don't send messages while most people are sleeping, even if you're wide-awake. Shoot for business hours or just after dinnertime.

  Amy Webb

  Sweet, Sleep, Two

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• To be awake and harmonious creates the possibility for ecstasy to happen. Ecstasy means the ultimate joy, inexpressible; no words are adequate to say anything about it. And when one has attained to ecstasy, when one has known the ultimate peak of joy, compassion comes as a consequence. When you have that joy, you like to share it; you cannot avoid sharing, sharing is inevitable.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Compassion, Joy

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• I remember thinking cocaine was subtle until I noticed I'd been awake for three weeks and didn't know any of the naked people passed out around me.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, People, Naked

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.366, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Let us awake to a sense of the perilous state of many professing Christians. 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord'; without sanctification there is no salvation (Hebrews 12:14). Then what an enormous amount of so-called religion there is which is perfectly useless!

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Men, Useless

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• Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn't mean that beliefs or ideas or thinking is a problem; the stubborn attitude of having to have things be a particular way, grasping on to our beliefs and thoughts, all these cause the problems. To put it simply, using your belief system this way creates a situation in which you choose to be blind instead of being able to see, to be deaf instead of being able to hear, to be dead rather than alive, asleep rather than awake.

  Pema Chodron

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.70, Shambhala Publications

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• The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

  Ariel Pink

  Night, Trying, Sound

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Pain, Night, Sky

  Buddy Wakefield (2013). “Live for a Living”, p.13, SCB Distributors

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• A lot of our young people are sleep-walking, dreaming that they're awake, and lots of aspects of society initially go about keeping it so.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Dream, Sleep, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.

  H. G. Wells

  Dream, Opportunity, Men

  H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.229, Xist Publishing

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• But finding a voice-let's be clear-is a political act. It defines a moment of presence, of being awake; and it involves not only self-understanding, but the ability to transmit that selfunderstanding to others...To experience yourself as "voiceless" is a definition of depression, subjugation, and being counted out. .

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Self, Voice, Political

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• Robots equipped with software can be designed to do repetitive jobs. All that you need in a factory is a set of dials, an expert, and a dog to keep the expert awake. We will be moving shortly to the next stage to robots with artificial intelligence who can "think."

  Philip Kotler

  Dog, Jobs, Moving

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We're either awake or we're sleeping. During the time that we're awake, we work very hard at denying things, mainly because we have to function as people. We have to control and repress everything that we're fearful of, because it doesn't make sense to go crazy on the streets, but in reality we hide and we hide, repress and repress, our fears of the world of violence, of separation, of death, and sometimes hopes, and some things that are very joyful, reunions or all of those good things. It's only in dreams that we're really truthful with whatever hurts most; they're really very real.

  Shirin Neshat

  Dream, Hurt, Crazy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everything in your life is there to teach you something; you can be awake to it or asleep to it. I can't remember which master said this, but he said, when the monsters are coming, you have to let them eat cake. Feed them. The more you invite them in, the less scary they become.

  Natasha Gregson Wagner

  Scary, Remember, Teach

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Idea of holding each other’s hands at the Women’s March—it feels like we are being invited to do that every day. So many of us are feeling attacked, whether it’s a woman’s right to choose or headstones in a Jewish cemetery, immigrants being deported or banned. So many of us feel the need to protect and defend our democracy. And march toward the dream of being “We the people.” So that’s exciting, scary, and frustrating. We’re awake. We are awake more than ever before, and we have to stay awake.

  Kerry Washington

  Dream, People, Scary

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I like to get away from noise, although I will play noisy music in my car to keep myself awake. But my ears need a rest sometimes. I do enjoy listening to classical music.

  Chuck Panozzo

  Car, Listening, Sometimes

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• When I awake Yesterday is far away When I awake I don't recall your name, my only friend.

  Hannah Peel

  Far Away

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Nothing keeps me awake at night. I keep other people awake at night.

  James Mattis

  Night, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.

  Chris Martin

  Art, Lying, Believe

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Life is sinister. I don't know if I am representing life exactly, but sinister, I think it has to do with dreams. You're dreaming when you're awake: you're sitting on the subway and you look around, and you can think of sinister things that are kind of delightful to think of because they're not really happening, but they are in your mind. They're about wishes, desires - sexy, dangerous, hopeful, the way it could be, maybe.

  Hampton Fancher

  Sexy, Dream, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All sorts of things can keep one awake. But as you get older - this is what the stroke thing really brought home to me - this thing that I never paid attention to: my brain. I've always been conscious that, of course, after a night of getting stoned, my head would feel foggy; if I got drunk the night before I'd be hungover. But that was the extent of my concern about my brain. And then with the stroke thing, it made me realize, "God! That's my main source of income." So it relates actually to your other question about growing old.

  Geoff Dyer

  Home, Night, Drunk

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I find Hollywood gives these pat stories, and they're reassuring stories, and I don't really want to give people that. Hollywood does all that work. I'm offering, sometimes, an alternative to that. The answers aren't black-and-white. There may not even be answers in certain instances. The ground is not necessarily solid, either. So you've got to keep awake the whole time, even after the movie is over.

  Terry Gilliam

  People, Giving, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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