Waking Quotes - Page 2

• Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

  George Eliot

  Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

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• Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sleep, Trouble, Cures

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1858). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.587

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• Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Good Morning, Death

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Death, Night

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• I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Money, Business, Men

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

  Elyn Saks

  Mind, Splits, Nightmare

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• Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.

  Anthony de Mello

  Life, Children, Learning

  "Approaching God : How to Pray". Book by Steve Brown (p. 94), 1995.

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• Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.

  George Santayana

  Dream, And Love, Waking Life

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• You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

  Paul Newman

  Morning, Careers, Smoking

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

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• In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

  Mao Zedong

  Long, Wake Up, Use

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• Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

  Alan Watts

  Letting Go, Ego, Purpose

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• Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

  Pliny the Elder

  Dream, Hope, Men

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• Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Good Morning, Good Day, Up Early

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated!

  Alex Jones

  Jobs, Team, Two Sides

  "Fictional character: Alex Jones". "Waking Life", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Life, Dream

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2848, Delphi Classics

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• Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

  George Eliot

  Dream, Daylight

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.31, 谷月社

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• Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

  John Milton

  Life, Sober, Bliss

  'Comus' (1637) l. 263

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• In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Dark, Night

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales”, p.36, Library of America

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• Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Ambition, Hold Fast

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.92

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• Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Sleep, Errors

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• We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sleep, Clouds, Enough

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.

  Robert Bridges

  Empty, Morrow, Empty Words

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• For me, even if I'm not a fan of the band in general or maybe it's not the style of music I want to put on for my daughter and me when we're waking up in the morning, there's always something that I can learn from it. And I think those are the things that are surprising.

  Jon Foreman

  Daughter, Morning, Thinking

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• A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

  Edna Ferber

  Long, Hours, Conscious

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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