Wake Up Quotes - Page 10

• Сertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that at all, but as usual with us human beings, we've overdone it. We are self-medicating ourselves away from the great awakening moments, and losing our coping skills and losing wake-up calls.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Self, Skills, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and say, “Oh, let’s just free the slaves.” ... Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people — usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time — had a better idea and articulated another way. That’s simply how evolution works; it’s the mutation — the member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they’re better adapted for survival.

  Marianne Williamson

  Ideas, People, Survival

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Grateful, Moon

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 09, 2012

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• I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Dream, Kings

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 28, 2013

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• I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been ecstatic Had a flower but it never bloomed In the darkness of my wasted youth It was hiding in the shadows Learning to become invisible Uncover me

  Juliana Hatfield

  Flower, Sleep, Sunshine

  Song: Sunshine, Album: In Exile Deo, 2004

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• Any day you wake up, maybe you die.

  Robert Jordan

  Dies

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Knife of Dreams: Book Eleven of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.395, Macmillan

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• You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

  Tucker Max

  Couple, Cat, Night

  Tucker Max (2011). “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell”, p.219, Citadel

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• It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.

  James Nicoll

  Cat, Ceilings, Leap

  Usenet article "Gay and straight", groups.google.com. February 14, 2003.

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• I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.

  Julia Hill

  Morning, Earth Day, Asking

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• The root-word "buddha" means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call a Buddha. It is as simple as that. The capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love is called Buddha nature.

  Nhat Hanh

  Knowledge, Mean, Simple

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• And we can't avoid an inch of our own experience; if we do it causes a blur, a bleep, a puffy unreality. Our job is to wake up to everything, because if we slow down enough, we see that we are everything.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Wisdom, Jobs, Causes

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Real, Writing

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• Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world, but the heart has its beaches, its homeland, and thoughts of its own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings, but the heart has its seasons its evenings, and songs of its own

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Beach, Morning

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.

  Derek Tangye

  Morning, Sadness, Years

  "The Way to Minack". Book by Derek Tangye, 1968.

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• Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Cancer, Recovery, Night

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• If we can't wake up to the fact that deep down inside we are good, then we deserve to remain asleep dreaming we are evil.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Dream, Evil, Facts

  Lon Milo DuQuette, James Wasserman (2010). “The Key to Solomon's Key: Is This the Lost Symbol of Masonry?”, p.121, CCC Publishing

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• The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

  Alan Hirsch

  Religious, Jesus, Adventure

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.92, Baker Books

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• Without a huge shock, the sleepy-head, ignorant Japanese will never wake up.

  Hiroo Onoda

  Ignorant, Sleepy, Shock

  "Words to Live By: Hiroo Onoda". Judit Kawaguchi, The Japan Times, January 16, 2007.

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• Let's take back the rainbow for God. Let the homosexual community find a different religious symbol to commandeer... What I want is for the Christian community to wake up, wipe the sleep from their eyes, and realize that they are in a spiritual battle that isn't going away and has no demilitarized zones. The rainbow is a symbol, but it's meaning points to the very character of God. So Christians, use this God-given symbol for His glory. Using it won't make you a homosexual.

  Ken Hutcherson

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• Honestly, just waking up every morning with headaches is tough, to know that I can't play tonight or I can't run tonight. Once the headaches started going away a little bit, I knew I had a chance.

  Alecko Eskandarian

  Running, Morning, Play

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• I am very gender-fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral.

  Ruby Rose

  Gender, Fluid, Feels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible readership. In The Ingenuity Gap he wants us all to wake-up to the fearful possibility that our blithe trust in science and technology may be misplaced. Human ingenuity may not be capable of coping with two emerging crises of this century and the next: population growth and environmental despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's wake-up call and you will see the future very differently.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Real, Commitment, Technology

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• Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or memoir written; or you didn't go swimming in warm pools or oceans because your thighs were jiggly or you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It's going to break your heart. Don't let this happen.

  Anne Lamott

  Nice, Ocean, Kids

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• Tomorrow is Election Day. That's the day we Americans wake up, consider our options, and then remember we didn't register to vote.

  Conan O'Brien

  Tomorrow, Election, Vote

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• The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.

  Bill Gates

  Epidemics, Ebola, Warning

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