Waking Quotes

• 

  The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Dream, Sleep

  James Allen (1923). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.22, New Line Publishing

  128 Copy quote

  Show source

• Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Buddhist, Morning

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Dec 18, 2015

  82 Copy quote

  Show source

• How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

  Plato

  Inspirational, Dream, Philosophical

  Plato “Writings of Plato”, Lulu.com

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the reason the wise guru will not attempt to wake people up. I hope I'm going to be wise here and make no attempt whatsoever to wake you up if you are asleep. It is really none of my business, even though I say to you at times, "Wake up!" My business is to do my thing, to dance my dance. If you profit from it fine; if you don't, too bad! As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens."

  Anthony de Mello

  Wise, Nice, Rain

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.6, Image

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

  Black Elk

  Dream, Wake Up, Sometimes

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

  105 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  1021 Copy quote

• Hope is a waking dream.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.

  Richard Linklater

  Dream, Infinite, Possibility

  "Fictional character: Guy Forsyth". "Waking Life", www.imdb.com. 2001.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

  Novalis

  Dream, Wake Up

  "Novalis". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.40, The Floating Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Lying, Acceptance

  1967 Speech at the Christian leadership conference, Atlanta, 16 Aug.

  89 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

  Aristotle

  Dream, Hope, Funny Inspirational

  "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laertius, p. 187, 1853.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they are waking up, because man has come to rouse them. Stones have begun to speak, because an ear is there to hear them. Layers become history and, released from the enchanted sleep of eternity, life's motley, never-ending dance rises out of the black depths of the past into the light of the present.

  Hans Cloos

  Sleep, Science, Men

  "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" edited by Carl C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, Springer Science & Business Media, (p. 1785), January 5, 2012.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

  Richard Whately

  Good Morning, Good Day, Up Early

  21 Copy quote

• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Wise, Money

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

  181 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you know clearly what you want, you'll wake up every morning excited about life.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Life, Morning, Everyday

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Jun 30, 2014

  77 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.

  Mark Cuban

  Motivational, Success, Smile

  48 Copy quote

• The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

  Paul Valery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  274 Copy quote

• Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.

  Dan Millman

  Inspirational, Happy, Time

  92 Copy quote

• Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

  William Blake

  Good Morning, Happiness, Sleep

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

  135 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Morning, Health

  25 Copy quote

• Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Sleep, Self, Deception

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories”, p.20, Courier Corporation

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own

  Heraclitus

  Sleep, World, Common

  4 Copy quote

• It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Book, Humor

  New Yorker, 21 Nov. 1977

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

  Annie Dillard

  Scales, Awake, Intervals

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.53, Canongate Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source