Waking Quotes - Page 29

• And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?

  Don DeLillo

  Morning, Powerful, Trying

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.320, Pan Macmillan

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• And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name?

  Mark Strand

  Mother, Children, Sleep

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.434, Knopf

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• I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.

  Mike Tyson

  Pain, Kids, Everyday

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• A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

  Walter de La Mare

  Dream, Light, May

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• All my life I've been pleasin' everyone but me, waking up in someone else's dream.

  Faith Hill

  Dream, Wake Up

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• Waking up in TRUTH is so much better than living in a lie.

  Idris Elba

  Lying, Wake Up, Truth Is

  Twitter post from Nov 11, 2011

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• The process of socialization is nowhere near complete at age five or six, when modern children start spending up to half their waking hours taking their cues from other people's children. Because they accompany their parents' daily routine, homeschooled kids spend plenty of time interacting with people of all ages, which I think most people would agree is a far more natural, organic way to socialize.

  Quinn Cummings

  Children, Kids, Thinking

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• There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Technique, Psychological

  Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.35, Basic Books

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• Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and lacking consequence, lacking any certainty that one thing led to another. But from within dream life, the world was generally coherent. Not exactly an unconfusing world-just no more confusing than any other.

  Alex Garland

  Dream, Perspective, Confusing

  Alex Garland (2004). “The Coma”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

  John Donne

  Fear, Sight, Sea

  John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.227, Harvard University Press

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• I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen the savor of the pain's surcease, waking into the reality, the more than reality, not to the unchanged and unaltered old time but into a time altered to fit the dream which, conjunctive with the dreamer, becomes immolated and apotheosized

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Pain, Reality

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside-down. It colours your waking moments and fills your dreams. You begin to walk on air and see life in brilliant new shades. But it also brings with it a sweet agony, a delicious torture.

  Vikas Swarup

  Dream, Sweet, Air

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• Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.

  Adyashanti

  Mean, Enlightenment, Wake Up

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The decisions you make about your work life are especially important, since most people spend more of their waking lives working than doing anything else. Your choices will affect, not only yourself and those closest to you, but in some way the whole world.

  Laurence Boldt

  Decisions You Make, Careers, People

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.218, Penguin

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• Spiritual leaders teach that waking up is a process, that it doesn't just happen once and for all, but must occur again and again when we realize we have forgotten the miracle of being alive, and in recognizing our forgetfulness, we wake to the miracle once again. In the moments we are awake to the wonder of simply being alive, gratitude flows, no matter our circumstances.

  M. J. Ryan

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Leader

  M.J. Ryan (2009). “Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life”, p.76, Conari Press

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• Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Lost Love, Knowing, Tears

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• Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.

  Alex Garland

  Dream, Wakes You, Built

  Alex Garland (2004). “The Coma”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.

  Aimee Mann

  Dream, Easy, Gloom

  Song: True Believer, 2008

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• I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.

  Jena Malone

  Sleep, Thinking, Important

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• Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.

  Walter Benjamin

  Life, Morning, Lying

  Walter Benjamin, Peter Demetz (1986). “Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing”, Schocken

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• Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

  Brian Andreas

  Morning, Real, Hero

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• Try to let go of the idea that you need to do yoga perfectly in order to see its benefits. Rather, let it be a process of waking up to who you really are. If you do this, you will know joy. And that joy will be your gift to a world that very much needs our healing.

  Darren Main

  Letting Go, Yoga, Healing

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• Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Smile, God, Children

  Journal entry (translated by Alexander Dru, 1938).

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• There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed, and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness. At such time, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its corporeal associate.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

  "The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens".

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• Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Adventure, Blessing, Air

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