Waking Quotes - Page 26

• It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

  William Ralph Inge

  Real, Thinking, Two

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• About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it´s just the contrary. Often it´s something you paid no attention to at the time -- a vague thought that you didn´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed -- these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.

  Boris Pasternak

  Life, Dream, Strong

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• How can non-existence get sick of itself? Everytime you wake up, you appear again out of nowhere. And so does everything else. Death just means the replacement of the usual morning waking with something else, something quite impossible even to think about. We don't even have the instrument to do it, because our mind & our world are the same thing.

  Victor Pelevin

  Morning, Mean, Thinking

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• Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at last that this was the real condition of humanity: The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simmple, sel-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future.

  Dean Koontz

  Dream, Real, Ambition

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.193, Bantam

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• I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelids.

  William Goldman

  Strong, Morning, Prayer

  "The Princess Bride". Book by William Goldman, www.cnn.com. 1973.

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• that's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her. like burning alive.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wake Up, Burning, Alive

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• In a life where waking hours are draped in the costume of horrid nightmare, where reality has suddenly become questionable, it's easy to be scared by dreams.

  Scott Sigler

  Dream, Reality, Costumes

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• But this year I have started out trying to live all my waking moments in conscious listening to the inner voice, asking without ceasing, 'What, Father, do you desire said? What, Father, do you desire done this minute?'

  Frank Laubach

  Father, Years, Voice

  Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.8, SPCK

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• I once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands.......and not my own blood.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blood, Hands, Wake Up

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• The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Morning, Bed, Stills

  Virginia Woolf, Samuel Solomonovitch Koteliansky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer (2006). “Translations from the Russian”

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• Waking up early on Saturday gives me an edge in finishing my work with a very relaxed state of mind. There is a feeling of time pressure on weekdays that aren’t there on weekends. If I wake up early in the morning before anybody else, I can plan the day or at least my activities with relaxed mind.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Morning, Weekend, Up Early

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• My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.
  Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.

  Tahir Shah

  Dream, Father, Eye

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Sep 15, 2013

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• A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it -- that alone can be like waking up from a dream.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Dream, Long, Unity

  Brother David Steindl-Rast (2008). “Words Of Common Sense”, p.10, Templeton Foundation Press

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• I wondered what it would be like to die. Was it like going to sleep or like waking up? Was there no more time? Or did time go on forever?

  Grace McCleen

  Sleep, Forever, Would Be

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• A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking.

  Veronica Rossi

  Dream, Lasts, Moments

  Veronica Rossi (2013). “Through The Ever Night: Number 2 in series”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment

  Marva Collins

  Moments, Should, Certain

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• It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.

  Laini Taylor

  Ocean, Years, Towers

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• Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Men, Healthy

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• I greet every new day with the words, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' That's the state of mind that directs me, fulfills me, and sends me out into the world with a gift to share. It's a blessing that I have learned over a lifetime - to experience the presence of Spirit in most of my waking moments. It's a feeling of contentment and satisfaction, of peace and love.

  Wayne Dyer

  Blessing, New Day, Feelings

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• Day, night, late, early,
  At home, abroad, alone, in company,
  Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been
  To have her match'd; and having now provided
  A gentleman of princely parentage,
  Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd,
  Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts,
  Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man-
  And then to have a wretched puling fool,
  A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender,
  To answer 'I'll not wed, I cannot love;
  I am too young, I pray you pardon me'!

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Sleep, Night

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1813). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Twenty-one Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.184

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• "Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.

  William Gibson

  Reality, Entrepreneur, Everyday

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• The days of waking up and reading the overnight ratings are over.

  Dawn Ostroff

  Reading, Wake Up, Rating

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• Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Patience, Fog, Follow Your Heart

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• Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.

  Jim Woodring

  Jobs, Thinking, Waking Life

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 8, 2010.

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• The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

  Gail Porter

  Sleep, Wake Up, Miserable

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