Awake Quotes - Page 18

• It is never a good practice to continue to sleep after sunrise. We should not think of staying in bed once we are awake; it increases laziness and dullness. Those who cannot decrease the amount of sleep quickly may do it in gradual stages. Those who do regular spiritual practice do not need much sleep.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Sleep, Thinking

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• I'm all out o faith, this is how I feel. I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor. Illusions never change into something real. I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn. You're a little late, I'm already torn.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Real, Lying, Sadness

  Song: Torn, Album: Left of the Middle

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• I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it.

  Tim Cahill

  Morning, Writing, Thinking

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• The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

  Dean Rusk

  People, Evil, Usual

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• Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep, still thank Him that you live to lie awake.

  William Arthur Dunkerley

  Lying, Sleep, Thank God

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• I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

  Ben Elton

  Brother, Book, Writing

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• I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

  Pele

  Lying, Night, Honest

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• At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Struggle, Sleep, Soldier

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• I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I've always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!

  Lisa Loeb

  Mom, Sleep, Thinking

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• A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, 'O' God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee'?

  Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

  Prayer, Night, Long

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• You know that thing when you're not asleep but you're not awake, and you can't move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow!

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Moving, Teeth, Crumbling

  "Hot Guy to Know: Nicholas D'Agosto". Interview with Kara McGrath, www.seventeen.com. August 8, 2011.

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• I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?

  Victoria Gotti

  Dad, Home, Night

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• I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.

  Martin Parr

  Shooting, Next, Lists

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• See yourself being a master of gratitude in the future. Mentally picture how this will help you feel joy the moment you are awake and are grateful for being alive. See how you can be grateful and happy for each breath. Realize that when you master gratitude, you will see a happy face every time you look into the mirror. See how your entire quality of life will be improved. See how other people will tell you that they enjoy being around you because you are such a happy person.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Gratitude, Grateful, Mirrors

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• Being present. The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the excuisite and eternal ocean of here and now. When you are, you can connect with your true self that is beyond the chattering of your mind. When you take the effort to focus your drifting consciousness to become fully awake to the present moment, you will discover the glorious light that dwells within you.

  Denise Linn

  Ocean, Flower, Butterfly

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• When you meditate make sure you stay awake. If you are falling asleep get up and splash some water on yourself or sleep until you are refreshed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Sleep, Water

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• All the lives we ever lead are only dreams, these walking moments, that look so solid to you when you consider yourself awake, are just dreams.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Looks, Moments

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• I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

  Annie Dillard

  Waking, Scales, Intervals

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.53, Canongate Books

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• The true poet dreams being awake.

  Charles Lamb

  Dream, Poetry, Poet

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.206

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• The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you.

  John Vance Cheney

  Wind, Forgotten, Deceiving

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• He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.

  John Keats

  Thinking, Indolence, Idle

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.440, e-artnow

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• When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.

  Ramakrishna

  Heart, Meditation, Solitude

  "Ramakrishna and His Disciples". Book by Christopher Isherwood, 1965.

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• Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.

  George Sewell

  Sleep, Inspire, Clay

  George Sewell (1719). “The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields”, p.12

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• The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because the more awake we become, the less we need the Ego.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Hate, Ego

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.140, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Powerful, Sleep, Long

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

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