Waking Quotes - Page 18

• The nervous system functions in a fourth, unique way, as different as dreaming is from sleeping as sleeping is from waking. When you transcend, it's the only experience that lights the full brain on an EEG machine. It's the only experience that utilizes the full brain.

  David Lynch

  Dream, Sleep, Unique

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.

  Robin Meyers

  Sacred, Blind, Hours

  Robin Meyers (2010). “Morning Sun on a White Piano: Simple Pleasures and the Sacramental Life”, p.47, Galilee Trade

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• While man can still his body keep
  Wine or love drug him to sleep,
  Waking he thanks the Lord that he
  Has body and its stupidity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wine, Sleep, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.298, Wordsworth Editions

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• Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.

  Sarah Manguso

  Defense, Diaries, Wake Up

  "Ongoingness: The End of a Diary". Book by Sarah Manguso, www.theatlantic.com. March 3, 2015.

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• We're constantly waking up to what we're about, what we're really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that's painful. But there's no possibility of freedom without this pain.

  Joko Beck

  Pain, Freedom, Wake Up

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• Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.

  Jason Mraz

  Mean, Wake Up, World

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I always try and stay one step ahead of people, not looking like I looked like last week, so I can be as anonymous as possible and part of it is just for me. It is fun to just come up with new and bizarre colors for each area of your body and things like that, but there are some parts of it that I just keep wanting to negate myself. I hate waking up in the morning and recognizing the woman in the bathroom mirror.

  Ani DiFranco

  Morning, Fun, Hate

  "Ani DiFranco, Then and Now". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2010.

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• I'm sure that there are many Israelis who dream of waking up one day to find the Palestinians gone. And there are many Palestinians who dream of going to bed at night and waking up the next morning to find the Israelis gone.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Dream, Morning, Night

  Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Night, Doe

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 4, sc. 5, l. [237]

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• The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Simple, Bad Dream

  Stephen King (2016). “Rose Madder”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

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• The longer I stay clean, the better my beats are getting and the easier it is to zero in on one idea. Because I really want to, often, try to get an idea across. I can really get to the essence of a song better if I'm clean and I'm not waking up with a hangover.

  Larry Tee

  Song, Zero, Hangover

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Age is nothing; waking up is everything.

  Maya Angelou

  Age, Wake Up

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• I think spiritual perception comes from natural and healthy relationship to the land and I've had that. I get an easy, automatic sense of myself in nature, a wholeness and I feel nowhere else. I think people should live where praying is most immediate. That`s why I live in New Mexico. The physical terrain, the feeling, the environment and culture improve my life just by waking up there.

  Val Kilmer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Land

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

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• But now, I get up every morning and go to the gym because I don't like waking up stiff or in pain and wondering if my hip is going to hurt me.

  Bo Jackson

  Hurt, Morning, Pain

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• Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Risk, Dying, Wake Up

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• Man, I hate waking up with a dead hooker.

  Unknown

  Hate, Men, Wake Up

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• In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking - birth and death - everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Heart, Sleep, Use

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• Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

  Antonio Machado

  Dream, Important, Wake Up

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.151, Wesleyan University Press

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• I...have been in that weird state between dreaming and waking, where dreams could be memories and the real world could be a dream.

  Jocelyn Davies

  Dream, Memories, Real

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• Strong people stand up for themselves. Stronger people stand up for others. The irony is that while sleep sometimes brings nightmares, it's the reality of my waking hours that can cause me the greater fear.

  Chris Gardner

  Strong, Sleep, Reality

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• Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Wake Up, Pillow

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• ...yesterday and today and tomorrow are not an arrow that shoots from past to present to future; rather all tenses, and sleeping and waking, mix and cohabit in an atemporal duration beyond clocks and calendars. The Aboriginal world began long ago when the Ancestors sang in Dreamtime the cosmic rhythms that give shape to the things we see, and it is the beginning right now, when a living Tiwi sings the Dream songs that continue, or are, the world.

  Huston Smith

  Dream, Song, Sleep

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• Imagine you waking up tomorrow and you can't get a bank account; you can't get a credit union account. Everything has gone away and you're now living in poverty.

  Suze Orman

  Gone Away, Wake Up, Credit

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I feel like music does have a role to play in waking people up; it can be an alarm clock or it can be a lullaby.

  Debby Ryan

  Play, People, Alarms

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• There have been two [career highlights]. Waking up in New York to hear I'd been nominated for Best Actor for a Tony Award on Broadway, for An Ideal Husband. The other one was waking up the morning after the opening night of A Man For All Seasons and reading the reviews.

  Martin Shaw

  Morning, New York, Husband

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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