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Quotes About Awakening

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
~ Sitting Bull
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
~ William S. Burroughs
We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.
~ Wei Wu Wei
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
~ Steven Tyler
The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers.
~ Lu Xun
Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't under­stand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.
~ Sarah Dessen
In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.
~ Stephen Covey
Coffee is to wake up, coffee is to work with, coffee is to live with, coffee is life
~ Jim Parsons
Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
Leave your yawns behind you and feel the tiny new breeze of life lighting up inside of you.
~ Tao Porchon-Lynch
If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
Everything that occurs in your life is part of God's plan to wake you up.
~ Leonard Jacobson
The truth is: you don't have a life, you are life.
~ Eckhart Tolle
And wham! Suddenly. Just like that. I'm completely conscious of his guyness next to me.
~ Jennifer Niven
I can't tell you what was different this time around, only that when I woke up, I felt deader than usual. Awake, yeah, but completely empty, like someone had been feasting on my blood.
~ Jennifer Niven
but it's only when I'm awake that I think about dying.
~ Jennifer Niven
Which of my feelings are real? Which of the mes is me? There is only one me I've ever really liked, and he was good and awake as long as he could be.
~ Jennifer Niven
I shout, "I would like to welcome you to my death!" You might expect me to say "life," having just woken up and all, but it's only when I'm awake that I think about dying.
~ Jennifer Niven
that's how Polbearne wakes up of a morning.
~ Jenny Colgan
There hadn't been one specific moment. It was like gradualy waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It's a slow process, but when you're awake, there's no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love.
~ Jenny Han
When did you know you were in love?" I didn't have an answer to that question. There hadn't been one specific moment. It was like gradually waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It's a slow process, but when you're awake, there's no mistaking it.
~ Jenny Han
My dad used to say that with everything in life, there's the game-changing moment. That one moment everything else hinges upon, but you hardly ever know it at the time.The three-pointer early on in the second quarter that changes up the whole tempo of the game. Wakes people up, brings them back to life. It all goes back to that one moment.
~ Jenny Han