Awake Quotes - Page 9

• Regret is what you should fear the most. If something is going to keep you awake at night, let it be the fear of not following your dream.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Dream, Regret, Night

  Chris Guillebeau (2014). “The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life”, p.204, Harmony

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• There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for your own life. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber through life in an instant gratification sugar coma. The most extraordinary gift you've been given is your own humanity, which is about consciousness. So honor that consciousness.

  Eustace Conway

  Men, Media, Ideas

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• If you don't have a well-thought out dream, you can start by figuring out where you want to go. If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community you live (from restaurants to department stores to clothing choices to conversations at the dinner table) and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Dream, Choices, Community

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• You don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow

  Kid Cudi

  Sorrow, Bed, Trials

  Song: Pursuit Of Happiness, 2009

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• What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Book, Fall, Rocks

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• American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood, to make laws for you and your daughters awake to the danger of your present position and demand that woman, too, shall be represented in the government!

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Daughter, Order, Law

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ann Dexter Gordon, Susan Brownell Anthony (2000). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Against an aristocracy of sex, 1866 to 1873”, p.237, Rutgers University Press

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• Meditation is your awakening. The moment you awake, sleep disappears and with it all the dreams, all the projections, all expectations, all desires. Suddenly you are in a state of desirelessness, non-ambition, unfathomable silence. And only in this silence, blossoms flower in your being. Only in this silence the lotuses open their petals.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Flower, Ambition

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• I cannot stand being awake, the pain is too much.

  Spike Milligan

  Pain, Suffering, Too Much

  Spike Milligan (2011). “Milligan's Meaning of Life: An Autobiography of Sorts”, p.276, Penguin UK

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• Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.

  John Keats

  Dream, Suffering, Another Life

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.366, Oxford University Press, USA

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• England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?

  William Blake

  Sister, Wall, Sleep

  'Jerusalem' (1815) 'To the Christians' (plate 77) "England! awake!... "

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• On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come.

  Lynn Johnston

  Dream, Morning, Lying

  Lynn Johnston (1994). “It's the Thought That Counts:: A For Better Or For Worse Fifteenth Anniversary Collection”, p.6, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.

  William James

  Use, Half, Limits

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• The people need poetry that will be their own secret
  To keep them awake forever,
  And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing.

  Osip Mandelstam

  Breathing, People, Forever

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• Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.

  Napoleon Hill

  Stars, Dreamer, World

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.32, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• You are an eternal being now on the pathway of endless unfoldment, never less but always more yourself.  Life is not static.  It is forever dynamic, forever creatingnot something done and finished, but something alive, awake and aware.  There is something within you that sings the song of eternity.  Listen to it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Song, Forever, Pathways

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• The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, World, Common

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• For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."

  Heraclitus

  Young, Young And Old

  "Hippocrates".

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• What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.

  Tom DeMarco

  Team, People, Leader

  Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House

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• Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.

  Tom Robbins

  Half, Still Life With Woodpecker, Minimalism

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

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• Artist awake or be forever fallen.

  Frederick Varley

  Artist, Forever, Awareness

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• If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealous, Sleep, Law

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Winter's Tale: A Broadview Internet Shakespeare Edition”, p.109, Broadview Press

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• I have got so low that I have asked to be hospitalized and for deep narcosis (sleep). I cannot stand being awake. The pain is too much... Something has happened to me, this vital spark has stopped burning - I go to a dinner table now and I don't say a word, just sit there like a dodo. Normally I am the centre of attention, keeps the conversation going, - so that is depressing in itself. It's like another person taking over, very strange. The most important thing I say is 'good evening' and then I go quiet.

  Spike Milligan

  Depression, Depressing, Pain

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• In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake. The mind is giving you substitutes just to protect your sanity; otherwise you will be scattered in fragments.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Sleep, Giving

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• Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and lacking consequence, lacking any certainty that one thing led to another. But from within dream life, the world was generally coherent. Not exactly an unconfusing world-just no more confusing than any other.

  Alex Garland

  Dream, Perspective, Confusing

  Alex Garland (2004). “The Coma”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Motivational, Dream, Trying

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