Awake Quotes - Page 11

• There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Empathy, Feelings

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.76, Delphi Classics

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• Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow where she loves to lead. What various feelings come from days gone by! What tears from far-off sources dim the eye! Few, when light fingers with sweet voices play, And melodies swell, pause, and melt away, Mind how at every touch, at every tone, A spark of life hath glistened and hath gone.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Life, Sweet, Eye

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “Miscellaneous poems: Collection of 1846. Last fruit off an old tree. Dry sticks. Additional poems. Criticisms: Idyls of Theocritus. Poems of Catullus. Francesco Petrarca”, p.222

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• Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily course of duty run. Cast off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice. All praise to thee, who safe hast kept and hast refreshed me while I slept! Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, I may of endless life partake. All praise to thee, my God, this night for all the blessings of the light. Keep me, oh keep me, King of Kings, beneath Thine own almighty wings. Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow. Praise Him, all creatures here below. Praise Him above, ye heavenly host. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

  Thomas Ken

  Life, Running, Morning

  "Awake my soul, and with the sun" (hymn) (1695)

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• Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Powerful, Healing, Mindfulness

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• There are some who do not learn, and who do not improve as fast as they might, because their eyes and their hearts are not upon God; they do not reflect neither do they have that knowledge which they might have; they miss a good deal which they might receive. We have got to obtain knowledge before we obtain permanent happiness; we have got to be wide awake in the things of God.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Heart, Eye, Missing

  Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mean, Knowing, Mindfulness

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

  Garth Brooks

  Night, Risk, Chance

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• Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Sleep, Destiny, August

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• I look at the time with you to keep me awake and alive.

  Peter Gabriel

  Interesting, Looks, Alive

  Song: In Your Eyes, 1986

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• You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

  T. H. White

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.161, Penguin

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• God speaks once, yea twice, yet Man perceiveth it not, in a Dream, in a Vision of the night, when deep Sleep falleth upon men, in slumbering upon the bed. We need not, when abed, to lie awake to talk with God, he can visit us while we sleep, and cause us then to hear his Voice. Our heart oft-times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake

  John Bunyan

  Dream, Lying, Heart

  John Bunyan (1847). “The Pilgrim's Progress: In Two Parts”, p.279

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• I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential.

  Tim Scott

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  "Interview with Congressman-Elect Tim Scott". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 5, 2010.

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• You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.

  Warren Buffett

  Sleep, Investing, Half

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• Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.

  James Forten

  Tyrants, America, Long

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• To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time.  Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Years, Discovery, Self

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

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• When I awake dramatically I start off my day by reciting aloud a fan letter.

  Austin Mahone

  Fans, Letters, Reciting

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• I was always 'awake'...Some part of me clamoring for NEW insights and NEW ways to make the world a better place.

  Bill Hicks

  World, Way, Insight

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• I wasn't prepared for death. Nobody is. You lose someone you love more than you love yourself, and you get a crash course in mortality. You lie awake night after night, wondering if you really believe in heaven and hell and finding all kinds of reasons to cling to faith, because you can't bear to believe they aren't out there somewhere, a few whispered words of a prayer away.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Prayer, Lying, Love Yourself

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Nov 06, 2013

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• I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.

  David Brainerd

  Dream, Sleep, Soul

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• Consciousness, fully awake to itself, is the Light of God.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Light, Consciousness

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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

  Sleep, Fighting, Has Beens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together. Then the morning comes, the wavering grey turns to gold, there is stirring within me as the sleepers awake, and he softly departs.

  Kamala Markandaya

  Morning, Husband, Night

  Kamala Markandaya (1954). “Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel”

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• Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness.

  Loren Eiseley

  Dream, Loneliness, Lying

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.162, Vintage

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• When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry. If you’re not lying awake at night worrying about it, the reader isn’t going to, either. I always know that when I get a good night’s sleep, the next day I’m not going to get any work done. Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It’s not all inspirational.

  James M. Cain

  Good Night, Lying, Writing

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• My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.

  Adyashanti

  Dream, Awakening, Shakes

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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