Waking Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been ecstatic Had a flower but it never bloomed In the darkness of my wasted youth It was hiding in the shadows Learning to become invisible Uncover me

  Juliana Hatfield

  Flower, Sleep, Sunshine

  Song: Sunshine, Album: In Exile Deo, 2004

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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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• It's very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square - that's the craziest one.

  Allison Williams

  Squares, Noses, Sides

  "'Girls' Star Allison Williams Braces for an Unfamiliar Kind of Fame" by Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 13, 2012.

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• No genuine change in society ever occurs without the mass public getting behind a cause. The good guys in government are counting on enough of us common people waking up and demanding more rights and greater freedoms.

  James Morcan

  Rights, Government, People

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• Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Morning, Silly, Sleep

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.34, 谷月社

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• I don’t really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.

  L'Wren Scott

  Running, Morning, Challenges

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• The best thing about waking up early is seeing the sun rise.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Up Early, Wake Up, Sun

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• Russia is now recognized as the center of the global 'mutiny' against global dictatorship of the US and EU. Its generally peaceful .. approach is in direct contrast to brutal and destabilizing methods used by the US and EU. The world is waking up to reality that there actually is, suddenly, some strong and determined resistance to Western imperialism. After decades of darkness, hope is emerging.

  Andre Vltchek

  Strong, Reality, Russia

  "Ukraine: Lies and Realities" by Andre Vltchek, www.counterpunch.org. April 11, 2014.

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• I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another.  One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next,  visceral, ironic and relevatory-here is the full chaos of life. An amazing talent.

  Janet Fitch

  Ironic, Next, Wake Up

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• I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult studies people study; and it's partly, I suppose, because some of those signs and signals aren't worth bothering about. You have to be selective about these things.

  Peter York

  People, Study, Moments

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• How we start our day determines how we create our life. Are you snoozing through your morning... snoozing through your life... and snoozing through your unlimited potential... Or are YOU committed to waking up each day with passion, purpose, and a plan so you can create the life you truly want & deserve?

  Hal Elrod

  Morning, Passion, Unlimited Potential

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 17, 2011

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