Awake Quotes - Page 5

• I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Religion, Hippopotamus, I Can

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• O no, thy love though much, is not so great, It is my love that keeps mine eye awake, Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake. For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Eye, Play

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.28, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not a person, but a state of consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Names, Consciousness, States

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Fall, Sleep, Awakening

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• I go to bed is around 11, and I do that for every race. I get good sleep. I don't lie awake for any race. That's my routine.

  Mario Andretti

  Lying, Sleep, Race

  "The Mario Andretti Indy 500 Interview: Part II". Interview with Steven Capwell, www.littlepocketguide.com.

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• You can look at what's happened to America in the last years and say a lot of people were asleep. A lot of people were not staying awake and watching what was going on and facing the pain of that and dealing with it.I don't care if the rest of the audience doesn't think along those lines at all, because the audience is a huge spectrum of people, from people who are introspective to people who just want to be scared and have fun, and all the points in between.

  Wes Craven

  Fun, Pain, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I love the whole physical thing in films. It keeps me on my toes, it keeps me awake, it keeps me alive. If I'm going to be shooting a movie from 7pm to 7am six nights a week, I best be as physical as possible because then I'll never get tired. Otherwise you sit down, it sounds really weird, but that's the part that wears you out.

  Sharni Vinson

  Tired, Night, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Running, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, Night, Knows

  The Writers Write Interview, writerswrite.co.za. February 10, 2015.

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• We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.

  Nhat Hanh

  Meditation, Trying, Our Society

  Nhất Hạnh (Thích.), Thich Nhat Hanh (1993). “Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change”

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• Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Men, Meditation

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.54, Macmillan

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• At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, and everything made sense.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Dream, Sweet

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• Love is: Bringing a blanket when someone's asleep. Giving the last piece of food to the other person. Staying awake to listen to them when you are dead tired. Hugging them tightly when they need it the most.

  Carlos Salinas

  Love, Tired, Giving

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• When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before any one is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.

  Celia Thaxter

  Time, Morning, Garden

  "An Island Garden".

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• And you tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can't make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

  Warsan Shire

  Break Up, Beautiful, Home

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• We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Jobs, Yoga

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• We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.

  Diogenes

  Dream, Spiritual, Time

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• To be awake is to be alive.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Live In The Moment, Energy

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.142

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• Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.

  Chinua Achebe

  Children, Eye, Justice

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• Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Wisdom, Children, Hypocrite

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna karenina (Arcadia Classics)”, p.334, Leo Tolstoy

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• I could smell myself awake with that coffee.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Coffee, Smell

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• Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up as a new man in a new morning. Don't let the same one who went to bed get up. Let him go to sleep for good. Let the one who is ever-new and ever-fresh awake instead.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Morning, Sleep

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• When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Lying, Indulge In, Anxiety

  'Iolanthe' (1882) act 2

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• Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wise, Nature, Heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.35

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• There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the labor of storing. But they sleep in the memory and awake in later years, illuminated by life and illuminating it.

  Richard Livingstone

  Memories, Sleep, Years

  Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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