Quotes About Awakening

Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí.

But thou, O Christ, put sleep to flight And break the iron bands of night, Free us from burden of past sin And shed Thy morning rays within.

We (Turkish soldiers) were met by just a few men on horseback in Caucasian dress, like fairy-tale soldiers with silver-plated sabres in their belts. Our small procession seemed to me to be the harbinger of a great liberation, the awakening of the vast land of Turan. It was a new Ergenekon.

If this was a dream, he didn't want to wake up.

Lillie woke to darkness an instant before a large warm hand clamped down over her mouth…

For one who lacks ethical discipline and perfect physical health, there can be no spiritual illumination. Body, mind and spirit are inseparable: if the body is asleep, the soul is asleep. The

The world is new to us every morning - this is God's gift and every man should believe he is reborn each day.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Nebraska people have the heart and power to create real beauty and art if they will only wake up and do it.

The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.

When I wake up in the morning, I like to express my gratitude for being on the planet. That gratefulness makes me very present.

Sometimes I think I understand everything—then I regain consciousness.

The fact that my sexual awakening peripherally involves Steve Guttenberg I have gradually accepted.

La poésie n'est pas une tradition, c'est un rêve primitif, c'est l'éveil des images premières.

With a strong commitment to inquiring into yourself, the universe does not have to use catastrophes to wake you up.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

It's called the 'American dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it.

I daresay some would never get their eyes opened if it were not for a violent shock from the consequences of their own actions

As the child's mind was growing into knowledge, his mind was growing into memory: as her life unfolded, his soul, long stupefied in a cold, narrow prison, was unfolding too, and trembling gradually into full consciousness.

This awakening of a new interest—this passing from the supposition that we hold the right opinions on a subject we are careless about, to a sudden care for it, and a sense that our opinions were ignorance—is an effectual remedy for ennui, which, unhappily, cannot be secured on a physician's prescription;

The half-indignant remonstrance that vibrated in Deronda's voice came, as often happens, from the habit of inward argument with himself rather than from severity toward Gwendolen: but it had a more beneficial effect on her than any soothings. Nothing is feebler than the indolent rebellion of complaint; and to be roused into self-judgment is comparative activity. For the moment she felt like a shaken child—shaken out of its wailing into awe.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.