Waking Quotes - Page 11

• God, thank you for waking me up this morning. I want to embrace every day, however limited my day may be, as a gift from God. I want to live this day to its fullest. I know there are things I can no longer do. I know I am facing daily limitations. But I want to focus on what I can do, not on what I cannot do. So help me God. I know this day will never be repeated. I know I cannot live it over again. Help me to live it to its fullest.

  Ed Dobson

  Morning, Waking Me Up, Focus

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• I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it's a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you're in the NHL.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Thinking, Nhl, People

  "Q&A WITH Wayne Gretzky : He's on the Ice, Feeling Fit Again : Hockey: His back is sound and the Kings are getting better. And people who say he's the Average One motivate him to continued greatness". Interview with Steve Springer, articles.latimes.com. September 13, 1990.

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• A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.

  James Anthony Froude

  Dream, Men, Would Be

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.164

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• Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.

  Jeannette Walls

  Morning, Horse, Lakes

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.

  Brit Marling

  Important

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• We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Sleep, Water

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

  Brit Marling

  Scary, Wake Up, Courageous

  "How to Succeed in Hollywood Despite Being Really Beautiful". Interview with Emma Rosenblum, www.nytimes.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Premie'  re approximation: j'e  cris pour de  truire, en les de  crivant avec pre  cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e  veille  e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.

  Alain Robbe-Grillet

  Writing, Monsters, Waking Life

  1984 LeMiroir qui revient.

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• Children should observe a regular schedule for sleeping and waking up.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Sleep, Kids

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• Nosegays! leave them for the waking,
  Throw them earthward where they grew
  Dim are such, beside the breaking
  Amaranths he looks unto.
  Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Color, Looks

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.256

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• Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Dream, Differences, Expectations

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Nature, Winning, Simple

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• Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.

  Paul Davies

  Law, Issues, Looks

  "Yes, the universe looks like a fix. But that doesn't mean that a god fixed it" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

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• The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things strong and at the same time beautiful? The famished men need not stay famished. But to gorge themselves in this heartbreaking way consuming, utterly destroying the common promise of their greed, was that ever necessary?

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Beautiful, Strong, Men

  Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.85, Heinemann

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• Better to die, and sleep
  The never-waking sleep, than linger on
  And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

  Sophocles

  Suicide, Sleep, Soul

  Sophocles, “Chorus From Ajax”

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• the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Death, Self, Mysterious

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1911). “Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett”

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• But alas for the dreams that round us play! / For the plans of mortal making! / And alas for the false and fickle day / That looked so fair at waking!

  Phoebe Cary

  Dream, Disappointment, Play

  Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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• Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers never shuck their image when they leave the stadium. They are supposed to be zany, nomadic soldiers of fortune who are involved in wild endeavors during every waking moment.

  Brock Yates

  School, Race, Giving

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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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• The rum fiend would like to go and hang up a skeleton in your beautiful house so that, when you opened the front door to go in, you would see it in the hall; and, when you sat at your table you would see it hanging from the wall; and, when you opened your bedroom you would find it stretched upon your pillow; and, waking at night, you would feel its cold hand passing over your face and pinching at your heart. There is no home so beautiful but it may be devastated by the awful curse.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Beautiful, Wall, Home

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• It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake someday and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out to where we can never return.

  Annie Dillard

  Sleep, Issues, Church

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.173, Canongate Books

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• I did almost every job in the bank. It was real life, waking up in the morning, putting on a suit and tie and then having to go to work.

  Romain Grosjean

  Morning, Jobs, Real

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• Why couldn't I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown's niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes.

  Kirby Larson

  Girl, Women, Niece

  Kirby Larson (2013). “Hattie Ever After”, p.4, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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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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• Let the vow of this day keep itself wildly and wholly Spoken and silent, surprise you inside your ears Sleeping and waking, unfold itself inside your eyes Let its fierceness and tenderness hold you Let its vastness be undisguised in all your days.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Sleep, Eye, Vastness

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Come, Thief: Poems”, p.55, Knopf

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