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“Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.”

“I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured; at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.”

Self Dream Influence Ridiculous Horrible Passing Passings Awake Falseness

Book:The Confession of a Child of the Century

Source: The Confession of a Child of the Century

“But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?”

Used Born Coffee Awake Berries Londoners

Book:Verses and Translations

Source: Verses and Translations

“Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.”

Giving Wells Mean Self Ego Degrees Giving Up Empty Overcoming Greed Cease Well Being Sensitive Awake Narcissism Preservation Chasing Being Me Being Mean Coveting

Author:Erich Fromm

“Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. Life asks of us the same thing we have been asked in every class: "Stay awake." "Pay attention." But paying attention is no simple matter. It requires us not to be distracted by expectations, past experiences, labels, and masks. It asks that we not jump to early conclusions and that we remain open to surprise.”

Has Beens Matter Past Asks Simple Pay Attention Class Teach Awareness Offers Expectations Surprise Conclusion Labels Pay Attention Awake Mask Distracted Past Experiences

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed, roused Mr Rochester at last though it was dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water. 'Is there a flood?' he cried”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.”

Long Seems Pain Night Awake

Author:Bernard-Joseph Saurin

“He who dreams ... does not know he is dreaming... . Only when he awakens does he know he has dreamt. But there is also the great awakening (ta-chiao), and then we see that [everything] here is nothing but a great dream. Of course, the fools believe that they are already awake-what foolishness! Confucius and you, both of you, are dreams; and I, who tell you this, am also a dream.”

Knows Believe Doe Dream Courses Fool Awakening Awake Foolishness

Author:Zhuangzi

“The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.”

Thinking Lying Night Hate Lines Letters Awake Dropping Neurotic Composing Awake At Night

Author:Mignon McLaughlin

“I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.”

Thinking Mind I Can Dream Courses Hours Sleep Boys Morning Nice Wonderful Pure Invention Get Up Awake Fourteen

Book:If Morning Ever Comes

Source: If Morning Ever Comes

“One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.”

Lying Night Father Talking Wonder Morning Childhood Quiet Late Improvement Punishment Awful Awake I Have Learned Impressive

Book:The World of Lincoln Steffens

Source: The World of Lincoln Steffens

“Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and to forsake Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light.”

Heart Light Joy Dark Blessed Bliss Awake Agony Forsake Adjusting Ambience

Author:Nick Gordon

“Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or in deep slumber. An individual who lives like this performs his daily actions with a mind free from selfishness. This is poise in action. And this poise leads to that serenity which is in the truest sense a healthy mind in a healthy body.”

Source: Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar

“I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.”

Cancer Awake Wheels

Author:Kris Carr

“Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night when it's hard to stay awake. A small boy will never be harshly criticized at a funeral; he is more treasured as death comes close and all his wickedness vanishes before the inescapable fact that thank God, he is healthy.”

Children Hard Facts Bigs Night Boys Healthy Occasions Awake Funeral Thank God Wickedness Joyous Small Child Treasured Blowouts

Book:Timebends: A Life

Source: Timebends: A Life

“I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.”

Men Way Heart Feelings Hands Lying Night Fall Prayer Steps Forever Walking Pure Hearing Forests Awake Awake At Night

Book:Jayber Crow: A Novel

Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel

“All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.”

Thinking Lying Night Middle Awake Bad Things Exaggerated Middle Of The Night

Author:Julian Barnes

“Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.”

Years Body Funny Remember Mother Humorous Seven Motherhood Awake Fifty Seven Years Remember You Remembers You

Author:Erma Bombeck

“While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one”

World Inspirational This World Awake

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.”

People Humans Wells Littles Half Wide Awake Subconscious Likelihood One Half Brownies Wide Awake

Book:The works of Robert Louis Stevenson

Source: The works of Robert Louis Stevenson

“It is never a good practice to continue to sleep after sunrise. We should not think of staying in bed once we are awake; it increases laziness and dullness. Those who cannot decrease the amount of sleep quickly may do it in gradual stages. Those who do regular spiritual practice do not need much sleep.”

Thinking Needs Should May Spiritual Sleep Practice Meditation Stage Amount Bed Increase Awake Staying Laziness Sunrise Decrease Spiritual Practice Dullness

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“I'm all out o faith, this is how I feel. I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor. Illusions never change into something real. I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn. You're a little late, I'm already torn.”

Feels Littles I Can Real Lying Perfect Sadness Sky Cold Late Illusion Wide Naked Awake Torn Never Change Something Real Wide Awake

Author:Natalie Imbruglia

“I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Writing Trying Long Morning Sitting Wake Up Awake Defeated Impossibility

Author:Tim Cahill

“The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.”

People World Evil Given Causes Half Awake Usual

Author:Dean Rusk

“Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep, still thank Him that you live to lie awake.”

Stills Lying Sleep Awake Thank God

Author:William Arthur Dunkerley

“I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.”

Writing Firsts Said Two Book Wanted Night Known Written Brother Awake Awake At Night Two Brothers

Author:Ben Elton

“At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.”

Lasts Sleep Struggle Heard Economic Revolution Demand Judgment Victim Soldier Arise Curse Awake Collapse Crash Corpses Loaded Accounting Proletariat Fanfare Economic Collapse

Author:Karl Liebknecht

“I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I've always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!”

Thinking Persons Sleep Mom Awake Deprived Better Person Kinder Good Mom Sleep Deprived

Author:Lisa Loeb

“I do whatever I do. I go to the club. I work on material. While other people are sleeping, I'm awake. I always liked that. I like being able to drive when there's no traffic. It's almost like you own the street at night.”

People Able Night Sleep Streets Materials Like You Clubs Awake Traffic Streets At Night

Author:Andrew Dice Clay

“Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.”

Men May Action Forget Achieve Illusion Cells Awake Organisms Colony Accomplishing Something

Author:Albert Claude

“I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.”

Want Kind Done Play Character Turns Actors Left Acting Careers Wide Endless All Kinds Range Awake Variation

Author:Tim Curry

“I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.”

Night Silence Quiet Late Bother Awake Talk To Me

Author:Diana Gabaldon

“My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.”

Long Book Age Lying Night Father Novel Five Mystery Television Bed Comic Awake Comic Book Spy All Night Mystery Novels

Author:Sherman Alexie

“What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.”

Ifs Way Writing Mean Young Attention Audience Stage Killing Awake Bores Arbitrary Resorts Playwright Pointless

Book:Conversations with Tennessee Williams

Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams

“Hence reason also demands that, since our thoughts cannot all be true because we are not wholly perfect, what truth they do possess must inevitably be found in the thoughts we have when awake, rather than in our dreams.”

Reason Dream Body Found Perfect Demand Being True Awake Our Thoughts Our Dreams

Author:Rene Descartes

“Drama is what you do when you have a dream while you're awake.”

Dream Drama Definitions Awake

Author:Ron Smothermon

“Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.”

Way I Can Earth Poetry Rooms Break Five Breaths Blow Noses Awake Shakes Bubbles Traps Wraps Slap Quake

Author:Peter Gabriel

“I am awake a lot of nights.”

Night Awake

Author:Roger Goodell

“I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.”

Mind Book Ends Hours Half Plans Dog Bed Awake Staying Lamps My Dog Half Hours

Author:Amanda Hocking

“Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.”

Lying Bed Evening Awake Echoes Rock And Roll Amplifiers

Book:Bob Seger - Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets (Songbook)

Source: Bob Seger - Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets (Songbook)

“I work really, really hard and it's challenging going through all of those time zones and having to be awake when you're supposed to be asleep. I literally fly more than a pilot.”

Hard Challenges Supposed To Be Awake Zone Pilots Time Zones

Author:Miranda Kerr

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