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Quotes About Awakening

grace strengthens us. It strengthens our hearts, awakens in us the courage to stand firm.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
His hands may have been the one to heal you, but it will be mine that awaken you.
~ Charlotte Featherstone
Awareness is our true self; it's what we are.
~ Charlotte Joko Beck
Physical pleasure is awakening in me the desire for more pleasure in general.
~ Cheryl Richardson
The time a man wakes up is his morning.
~ Chinua Achebe
After years on a drunken bender, Americans are awakening to lies masked in patriotism and glory.
~ Chris Hedges
When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.
~ Danny Pudi
Charley Patton is the original inspiration. I didn't play anything when I was a kid. Then, when I was 20, I went into my mam's bedroom because she had a double mirror, and I wanted to see what the back of my hair was doing. She had an alarm-clock radio, and it came on with this old guy moaning and hollering, playing this strange guitar.
~ Chris Rea
I've had moments where it's like being in the Matrix.
~ Carrie-Anne Moss
I think I am quite a morning person naturally, I think it may be breakfast radio that has made me be like that.
~ Sara Cox
I wish I was a morning person.
~ Zazie Beetz
No quiero sentir ya mi vida como si fuera una estadía. La filosofía que así la pinta es falsa. Ya es hora de empezar a vivir.
~ Thoreau Henry David
It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you're afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.
~ Tim O'Brien
It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you're afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends.
~ Tim O'Brien
We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative[s]," wrote one Bostonian, "and waked up stark mad abolitionists."7
~ Timothy Sandefur
Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness.
~ Tom Robbins
On second thought, it's unlikely that anybody can teach another to excel in bed. Rather, what they might do is awaken in the other her or his predisposition for copulative excellence.
~ Tom Robbins
the sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realized its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness.
~ Tom Robbins
I've long tended to regard the interruption of complacency as a kind of public service.
~ Tom Robbins
Kudra had awakened him from a long sleep. No, that was false, he hadn't been asleep at Samye, he had been in a state of heightened awareness, but there is a sense in which awareness can be as stagnating as sloth.
~ Tom Robbins
Half Asleep in Frogg pajamas.
~ Tom Robbins
Joseph Campbell was so conversant with the world of wonders that he awakened the potential for wonder in everyone he touched. He unbuttoned the secret earth for us and let the inexhaustible inspiration of Being stream through.
~ Tom Robbins
Break out of our boxes, Lord, and ruin everything that isn't of You!")
~ Tommy Tenney
But she had gone on a real trip, and now she was different. She got out of bed and lit the lamp to look in the mirror. (...) She looked for a long time and suddenly a shiver ran through her. I'm me, she whispered. Me. Nel didn't quite know what she meant, but on the other hand she knew exactly what she meant. I'm me. I'm not their daughter. I'm not Nel. I'm me. Me.
~ Toni Morrison