Wakes You Quotes

• Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

  Veronica Roth

  Fear, Divergent, Grazing

  "Divergent". www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

  Richard Whately

  Good Morning, Good Day, Up Early

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• The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

  Paul Valery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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  I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Creativity, Healing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

  Dr. Seuss

  Cells, Imagination, Brain

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• Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

  Daniel Handler

  Good Morning, Good Day, Morning Time

  "The Miserable Mill". Book by Daniel Handler, April 5, 2000.

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• It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Morning, Health

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• Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sleep, World, Nursery

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• You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

  Lewis Black

  Shenanigans, Wake Up, Goes On

  "Lewis Black on politics, aging, and being the guy who yells". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2012.

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• I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

  Jonathan Swift

  Good Morning, Good Day, Greatness

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• And when you wake, you will fly away, holding tight to the legs of all your angels. Goodbye, my love, into your blue, blue eyes.

  Dave Matthews

  Goodbye, Angel, Eye

  "Song: 'Baby Blue'". 2009.

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• I waited just to see you at that kind of peace, I wanted to be beside you, I wanted you to wake up slowly or startle, or just half awaken and turn over or murmur my name. I wanted to watch you forever, or sleep beside you forever, or sleep forever while you woke and watched me, something forever anyway. I wanted to kiss you, rumple your hair, rest three fingertips on your hip bone warm and smooth, wake you that way or hush you back to sleep.

  Daniel Handler

  Sleep, Kissing, Names

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• Hickory dickory dock, I just want to be your clock. Just set me for a lifetime, and I'll wake you up every morning.

  Smokey Robinson

  Morning, Games, Want

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• When I wake you're never there, but when I sleep you're everywhere.

  Michelle Branch

  Relationship, Sleep

  Song: Everywhere

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• The war does not end when you come home. It lives on in memories of your fellow soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who gave their lives. It endures in the wound that is slow to heal, the disability that isn't going away, the dream that wakes you at night, or the stiffening in your spine when a car backfires down the street.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Memories, War

  Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq, delivered 27 February 2009, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina

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• Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace.

  Mark Matousek

  Heart, Grace, Break

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• Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.

  Pema Chodron

  Sleep, Wake Up

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• Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Sleep, Suffering

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• If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you...then, I guess the music is working.

  A. R. Rahman

  Thinking, Make You Think, Music Is

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• Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude to everything, even difficult emotions, because of their potential to wake you up.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Path

  Pema Chodron (2007). “Always Maintain a Joyful Mind: And Other Lojong Teachings on Awakening Compassion and Fearlessness”, p.43, Shambhala Publications

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• There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Rome

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.

  Denise Levertov

  Flower, Night, Doors

  Denise Levertov (1998). “Sands of the Well”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Breathing, Soul, Bumps

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• I want to be the surgeon who cuts you open Who fixes all of life's mistakes I want to be the house that you were raised in The only place where you feel safe. I wanna be a shower in the morning That wakes you up and makes you clean I know I'm just the weather against your window As you sleep through a winter's dream

  Conor Oberst

  Dream, Morning, Mistake

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