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“Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that is what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself.”

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Amy Poehler

Amy Poehler, born on September 16, 1971, is an American actress, comedian, and producer. She gained widespread recognition for her role as Leslie Knope in the television series 'Parks and Recreation', for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. She also served as a host on 'Saturday Night Live', winning an Emmy for her work there. more

“Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.”

“Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.”

Soul Body Care Sleep Weary Deities Insomnia Funny Sleep Funny Sleeping Funny Insomnia Macbeth Sleep Rest And Sleep

Author:Ovid

“For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.”

Mean Stills Night Bed Insomnia Good Night Being Depressed

Author:Judith Guest

“A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless.”

Source: Poems of William Wordsworth. Selected and edited by Robert Aris Willmott ... Illustrated with one hundred designs by Birket Foster, J. Wolf, and John Gilbert, engraved by the brothers Dalziel

“For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.”

Dream Consciousness Insomnia Lucid Dreaming Sleep And Dream Sleep Dream

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.”

Dream Would Be Sleep Half Genius Highest Pity Accomplishment My Time Divides Insomnia Other Half Sleep Dream Time To Sleep

Book:Either/ Or

Source: Either/ Or

“We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.”

May Said Death Dies Term Prayer Sleep Fine Dare Insomnia

Book:The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus

Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus

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