Quotes About Awakening

It's only when we are able to see our own behavior that we are able to wake up and start making conscious choices.

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.

Marikana is a huge wake-up call.

I think sometimes players must have a wake-up call before they realise they are back in African football.

I hate to say this, but sometimes you need a wake-up call.

It might seem a psychotic, insane thing, quitting a job after I'd built a great career over eight years, but it was a wake-up call. All too often we ignore those, forget that we don't know how long we're here for and that we need to make the most of every moment.

Cancer is a great wake-up call. A call to take the tag off the new lingerie and wear that black lacy slip. To open the box of pearls and put them on. To crack open the bath oil beads before they shrivel up in a bowl on the toilet tank.

We're the only animal that wakes up and doesn't stretch.

Sometimes I'll do five minutes of skipping at the start of the day - one minute on and one minute off, and it's great, it really wakes up the system.

Self-sabotage is the proverbial hammer over the head that finally wakes us up, demanding that we pay attention. For most of us, it takes something devastating to crack us open, to get us out of our minds and into our hearts.

Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.

My dog wakes me at 6:30 in the morning, so pretty much, I have to get up.

During the week my alarm wakes me up at 6 A.M., so the latest I can sleep on Saturdays is about 7 A.M.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.

The neurologist calls it 'Non-REM parasomnia'. For the sufferer, it might mean rising in the middle of the night, getting your motorbike out, going for a ride, and waking in the morning with no memory of the experience.

People were asleep, but I think they're waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they've got to get involved.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.