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Quotes About Awakening

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.
~ Christy Turlington
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
~ Unknown
El nuevo amanecer encontró a la princesa heredera; al despertar, estaba agotada, y completamente vacía de sueños.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
I am obscure to myself. I let myself happen. I unfold only in the now. I am rudely alive.
~ Clarice Lispector
At half past three in the morning I woke up. And immediately elastic I jumped out of bed. I came to write you. I mean: be. Now it's half past five. I want nothing: I am pure. I don't wish this solitude on you. But I myself am in the creating fog. Lucid darkness, luminous stupidity.
~ Clarice Lispector
se eu gritasse acordaria milhares de seres gritantes que iniciariam pelos telhados um coro de gritos e horror. Se eu gritasse desencadearia a existência - a existência de quê? a existência do mundo. Com reverência eu temia a existência do mundo para mim.
~ Clarice Lispector
Acordava antes de todos, pois para ir à escola teria que pegar um ônibus e um bonde, o que lhe tomaria uma hora. O que lhe daria uma hora. De devaneio agudo como um crime.
~ Clarice Lispector
Houve um momento grande, parado, sem nada dentro. Dilatou os olhos, esperou. Nada veio. Branco. Mas de repente num estremecimento deram corda no dia e tudo recomeçou a funcionar, a máquina trotando, o cigarro do pai fumegando, o silêncio, as folhinhas, os frangos pelados, a claridade, as coisas revivendo cheias de pressa como uma chaleira a ferver.
~ Clarice Lispector
When you find out that everything about your reality is just an illusion, it's hard not to completely shut down.
~ Unknown
Le monde m'est nouveau à mon réveil, chaque matin.
~ Colette
Spiritual Awakening: The Process A slow change in the way we think, feel, and behave that is done to us, not by us.
~ Unknown
Saffy could tell by the feel of the darkness that Caddy was awake. She said, "Caddy, how far back can you remember?" "Oh," said Caddy, "ages. I can remember when I could only lie flat. On my back. I can remember how pleased I was when I learned to roll over.
~ Hilary McKay
Hon var inte vaken då hon gifte sig med den människan, hon gjorde det i sömnen. I drömmen ske ju ofta de besynnerligaste saker, och de förefalla fullkomligt naturliga och vanliga - i drömmen. Men då man vaknar och erinrar sig vad man har drömt, häpnar man och gapskrattar eller ryser. Nu har hon vaknat!
~ Hjalmar Söderberg
Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
~ Holly Black
Balekin and Orlagh are planning your murder," I say flustered. "Yes," he says lazily. "So why did I wake at all?
~ Holly Black
She came out of sleep like a thunderclap—waking from dreams so deep and dark that she couldn't remember anything but dirt and hands pulling her down into graves with cities inside them.
~ Holly Black
Everybody dies alone, Jameson said, and kept going. "Not everybody wakes up right after.
~ Holly Black
I would say that you lost yourself along the way, but you lost yourself far before that,' the storm hag tells me as I pass her. 'Wake up, little bird.
~ Holly Black
Some are good with pipes or paint. Some have skill in love. My talent is in making war. The only thing that has ever kept me awake was denying it
~ Holly Black
Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can't predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.
~ Unknown
Perhaps we all need a good thump on the head from time to time?
~ Liane Moriarty
The violence of her thoughts startled her and woke her up. She
~ Liane Moriarty
It was like I woke up when he was born. It was like he had nothing to do with that night.
~ Liane Moriarty
Her brain couldn't seem to catch up with the news. It was like the way she'd kept rolling toward Will last night in her sleep, only to find empty space where he should have been, and then waking up with a jolt.
~ Liane Moriarty