Awake Quotes
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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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When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city.
Charles Grandison Finney
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Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I was wearing the finger out. What was wrong was very simple. Sometimes her life and mine fell on the same day.
Gary Lutz
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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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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’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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To stand by the beds at sunrise and see the flowers awake is a heavenly delight.
Celia Thaxter
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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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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 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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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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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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Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
William James
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I like to keep mobile. It keeps my mind awake.
Isabel Lucas
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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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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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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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Fire, fear, foes! Awake!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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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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
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There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.
Sue Monk Kidd
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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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By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare
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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