Waking Quotes - Page 20

• I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Believe, Waking Life

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Value”, p.186, Routledge

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• Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy, individualism and wit. His daily radio show is the one reliable place ordinary citizens can turn to for a different perspective in the blizzard of propaganda and disinformation from the Northeastern media establishment. History will show that Limbaugh was a major force over the past decade in waking this country up from its p.c. coma.

  Camille Paglia

  Country, Past, Media

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• Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with a raunchy sexual reductionism, despairing scientism, morally normless cultural relativism, and self-assertive individualism. We remain resident aliens, OF the world but not profoundly in it, dining at the banquet table of waning modernity without a whisper of table grace. We all wear biblical name tags (Joseph, David, and Sarah), but have forgotten what our Christian names mean.

  Thomas Oden

  Christian, Morning, Mean

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• The best part of waking up, is Folgers in your cup!

  Paul Stanley

  Wake Up, Cups

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• The single most important key to sex that I've yet discovered is conscious rhythmic breathing; the more you breathe the more you feel and the more you come alive. Many of us breathe only enough to survive but not to live fully. Deep breathing is a door to waking up to healing and to more personal freedom.

  Annie Sprinkle

  Sex, Healing, Keys

  "Enlightened Sex: Women’s Tantric Breathing And Orgasm" by Suzie Heumann, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• [L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning.

  William Blake

  Morning, Light, Dew

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.6, Wordsworth Editions

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• If you're having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Play, Alarms, Wake Up

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• If you never want to see the face of hell, when you come home from work every night, dance with your kitchen towel and, if you're worried about waking up your family, take off your shoes.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Dance, Home, Night

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• I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

  Brian McKnight

  Morning, Sleep, Night

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• Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

  Seneca the Younger

  Dream, People, Vices

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• We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Sleep, Water

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• Better to die, and sleep
  The never-waking sleep, than linger on
  And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

  Sophocles

  Suicide, Sleep, Soul

  Sophocles, “Chorus From Ajax”

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• The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things strong and at the same time beautiful? The famished men need not stay famished. But to gorge themselves in this heartbreaking way consuming, utterly destroying the common promise of their greed, was that ever necessary?

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Beautiful, Strong, Men

  Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.85, Heinemann

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• Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.

  Paul Davies

  Law, Issues, Looks

  "Yes, the universe looks like a fix. But that doesn't mean that a god fixed it" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

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• If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Nature, Winning, Simple

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• Children should observe a regular schedule for sleeping and waking up.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Sleep, Kids

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• I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.

  Avril Lavigne

  Wake Up, Tvs, Guides

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• It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.

  Bo Bice

  Stars, Practice, Trying

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• I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like.

  Nick Denton

  Thinking, Media, People

  "Search And Destroy" by Ben McGrath, www.newyorker.com. October 18, 2010.

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• No, no, no, I don't snort no more, I'm tired of waking up on the floor. No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze, then it makes it hard to find the door.

  Ringo Starr

  Tired, Doors, Alcohol

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• Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Life, Philosophy, Self

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• When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

  Sam Neill

  Father, Years, Relief

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• Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.

  Jim Woodring

  Jobs, Thinking, Waking Life

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 8, 2010.

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• In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Differences, Perception

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• Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

  Brit Marling

  Scary, Wake Up, Courageous

  "How to Succeed in Hollywood Despite Being Really Beautiful". Interview with Emma Rosenblum, www.nytimes.com. June 24, 2011.

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