Best our-lives & wake-up Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.”

Ifs Needs Writing Sometimes Grows Bits Wonder Our Lives Heard Wake Up Make Sense Visible Desperate Endeavor

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“How we start our day determines how we create our life. Are you snoozing through your morning... snoozing through your life... and snoozing through your unlimited potential... Or are YOU committed to waking up each day with passion, purpose, and a plan so you can create the life you truly want & deserve?”

Want Purpose Passion Morning Our Lives Plans Deserve Wake Up Determine Committed Each Day Waking Unlimited Waking Up Early Unlimited Potential

Author:Hal Elrod

“Every time we push personal development aside, we invite personal struggle into our lives.”

Struggle Our Lives Development Wake Up Personal Development Invites Waking Up Early Personal Struggle

Author:Hal Elrod

“Most of us are so busy trying to manage, maintain, or even just survive our life situation, that we don't make time to focus on what's most important - our LIFE.”

Trying Important Situation Focus Our Lives Wake Up Busy Manage Making Time Waking Up Early

Book:The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits That Will Transform Your Life Before 8AM

Source: The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits That Will Transform Your Life Before 8AM

“It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don't do it consciously. And the time comes one morning when you wake up and find that you have become irrevocably what you were preparing all this time to be.”

Ifs Belief Morning Our Lives Wake Up Firm Preparing Firm Beliefs

Book:Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations

“Many people don't wake up. They fight against a difficult time, shut the window and become more bitter. Fortunately or unfortunately, however you see it, we are served up those opportunities over and over in our life. So if you've shut the window, don't worry, another hard time is going to come around the corner - to give you that chance all over again.”

People Ifs Giving Hard Fighting Opportunity Difficult Chance Worry Our Lives Window Wake Up Corners Bitter Hard Times Difficult Times Around The Corner

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.”

Life Is Universe Process Our Lives Becoming Wake Up Waking Lengthy

Book:Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

Source: Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

“I think we have a choice every single day in how we want to live our life. You wake up and you make your choice of what you want to do with your day that's going to help you achieve your dream.”

Thinking Want Helping Dream Choices Our Lives Achieve Wake Up What You Want Your Dreams Achieving Your Dreams

Author:Hilary Swank

“Those who have to face persistent political persecution become highly politicized. Our lives take on a rhythm different from those who, on waking up in the morning, do not need to wonder who might have been arrested during the night and what further acts of blatant injustice might be committed against our people later during the day. Our antennae become highly sensitive to vibrations barely noticed by those whose everyday existence is removed from political struggle.”

“We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.”

Trying Helping Use Process Attention Our Lives Meditation Wake Up Pay Attention Using Me

Book:A Path and a Practice: Using Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching as a Guide to an Awakened Spiritual Life

Source: A Path and a Practice: Using Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching as a Guide to an Awakened Spiritual Life

“I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives, it's part of our culture we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.”

Knows I Can Remember Film Song Culture Religious Sleep Our Lives Products Function Wake Up Traditional Celebrate Indian Cinema Lullaby Song And Dance

Author:Karan Johar

“We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . . and eating bran flakes . .. and then, with no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain. Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust.”

“We're constantly waking up to what we're about, what we're really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that's painful. But there's no possibility of freedom without this pain.”

Facts Pain Freedom Our Lives Possibility Wake Up Painful Waking

Author:Joko Beck

“"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity.”

World Children Stills War Humanity Fall Next Morning Our Lives Goes On Horror Wake Up Falling In Love Cruelty Ups & Downs

Author:Paul Auster

“Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.”

Chance Our Lives Risk Dying Wake Up Significant Waking Ongoing Chances Are

Book:Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

Source: Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

“If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.”

Ifs Action Joy Our Lives Seeing Personality Wake Up Mechanism Miraculous Unfolding

Book:The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types

Source: The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types

“I think that those of us who are ordinary disappear easily into the backdrop of life and we take things for granted. We often wake up in our lives and wonder how we got there. But the characters I create, the people I am drawn to, are quite extraordinary (and not always in wholesome ways), and they offer us the chance to understand who we really are and how we became who we are.”

People Thinking Way Character Chance Wonder Our Lives Offers Ordinary Wake Up Extraordinary Disappear Granted Who We Are Backdrop Taking Things For Granted

Author:Chris Abani

“We all have nightmares, we all wake up, we all have certain ideas of something that could be hiding around the corner and the question of does that really exist, but we get on with our lives.”

Doe Ideas Certain Our Lives Wake Up Corners Nightmare Hiding Around The Corner

Author:Rupert Wyatt

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