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Quotes About Awakening

Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.
~ William S. Burroughs
Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.
~ Coventry Patmore
The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
One day in the shower, you figure it out. It's a special day in a man's life. I was like, 'Oh, I found me a hobby.'
~ Adam Ferrara
But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.
~ Thomas Merton
There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Dead man, dead man When will you arise? Cobwebs in your mind Dust upon your eyes
~ Bob Dylan
Im like a man whos been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.
~ Daniel Keyes
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
~ Malcolm de Chazal
Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.
~ Johann Sebastian Bach
There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.
~ George Burns
For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
~ Kabir
Some people sleep until morning. Others know they have to bring the morning.
~ Shlomo Carlebach
I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
~ Gertrude Stein
Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.
~ Michael Leunig
I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.
~ Langston Hughes
Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.
~ Paul Brunton
Death is the final wake-up call.
~ Douglas Horton
There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: hail to the morning! come down to me, my beautiful unknown.
~ Jessica Powers
I like to wake up each morning felling a new man.
~ Jean Harlow
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
~ Ellen Goodman