Awake Quotes
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If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.
Andrew Harvey
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Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
William James
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Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.
Karel Appel
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What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.
Caryl Churchill
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Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.
Thomas R. Marshall
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I like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.
Isabel Lucas
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Over the vistas broke a cold gray light, such as seen in those false dawns that are neither night nor true morning, when the world and all its contents seem but shapes of mist, formed in vain hope and desire... If you awake from troubled sleep at such a time, you can only sit by the window and think of those that have been lost to you, those that followed your parents into those cold and heartless regions below the grass, silent and dark. Eventually, morning comes and the world resumes its solidity, but another tiny thread of ice has been stitched into your heart forever.
K. W. Jeter
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However young, the seeker who sets out upon the way Shines bright over the world. But day and night the person who is awake Shines in the radiance of the spirit. Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work, with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine!
Gautama Buddha
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I’m wide awake, I’ll drop you off for saying that, For days and two weeks, It was you who was defending such a lie, Oh what a lie, Was it a lie?
Pete Yorn
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I tell you we're gonna get people awake to you you bastards and we're coming for ya we're coming straight for ya and you know it that's why you're so scared that's why you're moving so fast now, and you just better keep doing that dance, cuz you can feel that flame of rebellion starting to lap up and lick right up there oh yeah oh boy.
Alex Jones
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To stand by the beds at sunrise and see the flowers awake is a heavenly delight.
Celia Thaxter
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Fire, fear, foes! Awake!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.
Aileen Fisher
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Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.
Blaise Pascal
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I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.
Cary Elwes
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When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
Heraclitus
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Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.
Aimee Semple McPherson
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Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.
Gautama Buddha
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Awake thee, my Lady-Love! Wake thee, and rise! The sun through the bower peeps Into thine eyes.
George Darley
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
William James
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Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.
Gautama Buddha
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By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare
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Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.
Paul Schrader
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I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.
Michael Dirda