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Quotes About Awakening

He let in the light.
~ Gloria Steinem
Birds sing sweetly, but someone awakened by them at 5 A.M. of a summer morning might dispute the adverb.
~ Isaac Asimov
Just then the branches lightly stirred… See, out o' the apple boughs a bird Bursts music-mad into the blue abyss...
~ Edwin Markham, "At Dawn"
Coffee makes it possible to get out of bed. Chocolate makes it worthwhile.
~ Author Unknown
He who sleeps in the raw, is in for a nude awakening.
~ Author Unknown
What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.
~ Henry Rollins, 1989
A morning without coffee is like sleep.
~ Author Unknown
I make serious coffee — so strong it wakes up the neighbors.
~ Author Unknown
Coffee, n. break fluid.
~ Author Unknown
Coffee makes grisly mornings bearable.
~ Terri Guillemets
Coffee sparks our morning fuse.
~ Terri Guillemets
Coffee and a barista kind Prepare me for the morning grind
~ Terri Guillemets, 2008
I just realized I'm not a morning person — I'm a coffee person.
~ Author Unknown
I must get up. My coffee needs me.
~ Author Unknown
Coffee — the pleasing nectar of Goddess Morning.
~ Terri Guillemets
Coffee smiles us into the day.
~ Terri Guillemets
Ah well, a morning with weak coffee is still beaucoup better than a morning with no coffee.
~ Terri Guillemets
I teach you to know the wonder and the mystery of existence — not to analyse it but to enjoy it, not to make a theory out of it but to make a dance out of it. The whole existence is dancing, except men. They have become a big graveyard. I am calling you to come out of your graves.
~ Osho
If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, perhaps your soul has never been in bloom.
~ Terri Guillemets
The sap was rising in the pines. The willows and aspens were bursting out in young buds. Shrubs and vines were putting on fresh garbs of green. Crickets sang in the nights, and in the days all manner of creeping, crawling things rustled forth into the sun. Partridges and woodpeckers were booming and knocking in the forest. Squirrels were chattering, birds singing, and overhead honked the wild-fowl driving up from the south in cunning wedges that split the air. From
~ Jack London
Or maybe that was a dream, too, and the awakening would be the changing of the watches, when he would drop down out of his bunk in the lurching forecastle and go up on deck, under the tropic stars, and take the wheel and feel the cool tradewind blowing through his flesh.
~ Jack London
He hated the oblivion of sleep. There was too much to do, too much of life to live. He grudged every moment of life sleep robbed him of, and before the clock had ceased its clattering he was head and ears in the washbasin and thrilling to the cold bite of the water.
~ Jack London
That first repulsion had been really a fear of her undiscovered self, and the fear had gone to sleep.
~ Jack London
Your goddamn bloodsucking boyfriend's been promising to change you for eight years! Jen said grimly. Wake up and smell the plasma, Beth!
~ Jacqueline Carey