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Quotes About Awakening

She moved quickly indeed, and with reason, for a strange truth was filtering into her soul.
~ Henry James
If a few more people felt badly, in this sodden, stolid, stupid race of ours, the world would wake up to an idea or two, and we should see the begininng of the dance.
~ Henry James
Unless the nightmare is strong enough to wake you up you go right on retreating, and either you end up on a bench or you end up as vice-president. It's all one and the same, a bloody fucking mess, a farce, a fiasco from start to finish.
~ Henry Miller
It was you, you who brought me the pardon. Pee on me, won't you. It would be like benediction. O, what a sleepwalker I have been!
~ Henry Miller
Over and over again I have said that there is no way out of the present impasse. If we were wide awake we would be instantly struck by the horrors which surround us ... We would drop our tools, quit our jobs, deny our obligations, pay no taxes, observe no laws, and so on. Could the man or woman who is thoroughly awakened possibly do the crazy things which are now expected of him or her every moment of the day?
~ Henry Miller
He wakes up utterly bored and discomfited, chagrined to think that he did not die overnight.
~ Henry Miller
Life will continue to be a hell as long as the people who make up the world shut their eyes to reality. Switching from one ideology to another is a useless game.
~ Henry Miller
The hope that we may one day awaken to a condition of life utterly different from that which we experience daily makes men willing victims of every form of tyranny and suppression. Man is stultified by hope and fear.
~ Henry Miller
In Greece one has the desire to bathe in the sky. You want to rid yourself of your clothes, take a running leap and vault into the blue. You want to float in the air like an angel or lie in the grass rigid and enjoy the cataleptic trance. Stone and sky, they marry here. It is the perpetual dawn of man's awakening.
~ Henry Miller
Convencido de la absoluta seguridad de la muerte, Grover se volvió de repente tremenda y arrolladoramente vivo.
~ Henry Miller
Out of the shdows of night The world rolls into light.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When I worked as a newspaper photo engraver in the only job I ever had, many years ago, I'd get the train home to Pukerua Bay where I was staying with my parents. An hour ride, 16 stops, and almost always, I'd have automatic wake-up, seconds before we pulled into my station.
~ Peter Jackson
Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.
~ Bill Hybels
I'm not one of those people who wakes up and thinks, 'Bring on the day!' I have to have about 7 pints of coffee before I'm even remotely awake. But I love the golden hour in the evening, as hokey as that sounds. Just as the sun is about to set and you get those lovely shadows and everything looks gold and yellow.
~ Stacy London
If you wake up in the morning, and you're feeling tired, I feel like if you get on your yoga mat and even practice for, like, 10 or 15 minutes, it's really great for just grounding you, centering you, and getting the energy moving.
~ Gretchen Bleiler
I'm extremely positive about investment in Africa. Africa has a wonderful climate, wonderful people, and amazing possibilities. Africa has been called dark and hopeless, but today it is neither of these. Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. It's the best place to invest.
~ Christoffel Wiese
It's nice to have dreams, but when you use borrowed money to achieve them and act as if money grows on trees, you may have a brutal awakening.
~ Maxime Bernier
The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.
~ Georg Solti
This is perhaps the hardest truth of any to grasp. Do we wake up every morning amazed that we are loved by God?
~ David Ford
Want Truth more than you want to awaken and the awakening takes care of itself.
~ Maria Erving
Love awakens the soul.
~ A.D. Posey
I stopped losing my sleep over you...Now i lie awakein search of me!!
~ Anjum Choudhary, Souled Out
When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be.
~ Kamand Kojouri
Every morning, the sunrise wakes me up with rays of hope.
~ Debasish Mridha