Quotes about Waking

Hope is a waking dream. Votes: 6

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. Votes: 6

In waking a tiger, use a long stick. Votes: 6

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. Votes: 6

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. Votes: 6

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare. Votes: 6

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. Votes: 6

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. Votes: 6

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion. Votes: 6

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? Votes: 6

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. Votes: 6

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do. Votes: 6

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. Votes: 6

Hope is the dream of a waking man. Votes: 4

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles. Votes: 4

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming. Votes: 4

Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled. Votes: 4

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. Votes: 4

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not. Votes: 4

Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym. Votes: 4

The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything. Votes: 4

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. Votes: 4

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career. Votes: 4

I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It`s a serious issue! I`ve been very late for some serious gigs because of it! Votes: 4

Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence. Votes: 4

Waking up in the morning isn't a choice, you know. Votes: 3

Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes. Votes: 3

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality Votes: 3

Waking up in TRUTH is so much better than living in a lie. Votes: 3

Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table. Votes: 3

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping. Votes: 3

Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck, And hear a cry from a reeling deck! Votes: 3

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures. Votes: 3

I do like routines. Waking up the same time, go to bed the same time. Votes: 3

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be Votes: 3

Waking up every day and coming to the ballpark and playing baseball ... that's a good feeling. Votes: 3

Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is. Votes: 3

The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world. Votes: 3

'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world. Votes: 3

Waking your kids up for school the first day after a break is almost as much fun as birthing them was. Votes: 3

Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall. Votes: 3

Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life. Votes: 3

Waking up to you is like... presents on Christmas morning." His mouth curved. "For your convenience, I'm already unwrapped. Batteries not required. Votes: 3

Waking up breaks my heart.Getting dressed breaks my arms.Joining the crowd breaks my legs.Letting someone in...does me in. Votes: 3

Waking up is seeing yourself just as you are, not as you would like to be nor as you are afraid you might be. Votes: 3

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart. Votes: 3

While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its stupidity.... Votes: 3

Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die. Votes: 3

Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence. Votes: 3

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life. Votes: 3

In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future. Votes: 3

Waking up each morning is not a right but a privilege while saying thank you for the day is not just a right to God but a command in motion. Votes: 3

Waking up in the morning, you didn't have to even think, you did it. Being able to get to work, didn't even have to think, you did it. That's miraculous. Votes: 3

I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation. Votes: 3

Waking up next to you is what I like the most, knowing that you belong only to me makes me very happy. Being with you is all I need to be happy. Votes: 3

Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present. Votes: 3

Waking up is the dangerous act of worship. It's dangerous because worship is meant to produce lives fully attentive to reality as God sees it, and that's more than most of us want to deal with. Votes: 3

And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day. Votes: 3

The first thing I do after work is take off my TV makeup with a gentle cleanser. I also try to exfoliate twice a week. Waking up with dull, flaky skin is no way to start the day. Votes: 3

A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable. Votes: 3

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations. Votes: 3

No time for jokes," Nakamura said. "Is Neil there?""Let's just say I'm Sleeping Beauty's personal assistant right now.""I guess that makes you Waking Ugly?""I thought you said this was no time for jokes. That was a joke, right? Votes: 3

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. Votes: 2

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. Votes: 2

I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve. Votes: 2

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. Votes: 2

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers. Votes: 2

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease. Votes: 2

With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what death is - without waking up to someone clapping and going, 'Joan, wake up, it's all over and you're looking pretty'. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability. Votes: 2

More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized. Votes: 2

I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about. Votes: 2

Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers. Votes: 2

We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show. Votes: 2

We still and always want waking. Votes: 0

I work virtually every waking hour. Votes: 0

Such sober certainty of waking bliss. Votes: 0

Looking at her is like waking up. Votes: 0

Age is nothing; waking up is everything. Votes: 0

Happiness is, waking up without a hangover. Votes: 0

Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream. Votes: 0

I can't seem to shake waking up early. Votes: 0

sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies! Votes: 0

Man, I hate waking up with a dead hooker. Votes: 0

A corpse is what's left after waking too often. Votes: 0

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep. Votes: 0

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour. Votes: 0

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. Votes: 0

The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking. Votes: 0

Children should observe a regular schedule for sleeping and waking up. Votes: 0

To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking. Votes: 0

Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors. Votes: 0

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up. Votes: 0

Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up. Votes: 0

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep. Votes: 0

The best part of waking up, is Folgers in your cup! Votes: 0

The days of waking up and reading the overnight ratings are over. Votes: 0

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot readThe hunter's waking thoughts. Votes: 0

There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself. Votes: 0

It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow. Votes: 0

Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking. Votes: 0

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking. Votes: 0

I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up. Votes: 0

We are in a waking dream... We see worlds where others scheme... Votes: 0

All the time it's a changing And all the dreamers are waking. Votes: 0

Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight. Votes: 0

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness. Votes: 0

Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare. Votes: 0

The best thing about waking up early is seeing the sun rise. Votes: 0

When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon. Votes: 0

Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life Votes: 0

Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one. Votes: 0

Hell's waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here. Votes: 0

A dream is the key that unlocks the mysteries of the waking world... Votes: 0

Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that. Votes: 0

Success is waking up every day and doing what you want to do Votes: 0

At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now. Votes: 0

In reality, there are no enemies; we're all souls in growth, waking up Votes: 0

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking. Votes: 0

Having a long term goal provides a catalyst for motivation at every waking moment. Votes: 0

your smile.is the ultimategolden dream.all the poemsin the worldare waking up from. Votes: 0

Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return. Votes: 0

It's not about saving humanity. It never has been." Mantrella, THE WAKING GOD TRILOGY Votes: 0

Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear Votes: 0

Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes. Votes: 0

A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking. Votes: 0

The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours Votes: 0

Every experience, waking or dream, has a lesson or message to impart to us. Votes: 0

Coffee has a way of waking my soul, much like drinking liquid heaven would. Votes: 0

If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking. Votes: 0

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking. Votes: 0

There was no heaven here. Eternal life meant waking up as a putrid corpse. Votes: 0

I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored. Votes: 0

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself. Votes: 0

If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing. Votes: 0

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep. Votes: 0

My main goal now is waking up healthy every day and going on with life. Votes: 0

Everyone I know feels harassed by email which has invaded their waking and sleeping hours. Votes: 0

All my life I've been pleasin' everyone but me, waking up in someone else's dream. Votes: 0

I love the idea of waking up to a song. It could be any song. Votes: 0

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide. Votes: 0

I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking. Votes: 0

There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning. Votes: 0

There is something to be said for waking up every morning and seeing the sun. Votes: 0

The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. Votes: 0

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours. Votes: 0

was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep? Votes: 0

Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces. Votes: 0

Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment. Votes: 0

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile. Votes: 0

Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen. Votes: 0

It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice. Votes: 0

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it. Votes: 0

No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day. Votes: 0

The perfect day is going to bed with a dream and waking up with a purpose. Votes: 0

In the realm of thought every person performs innumerable abortions each minute of the waking day Votes: 0

Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work. Votes: 0

Hustle is waking up the day before you die and realising you gave it your all. Votes: 0

If you're having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works! Votes: 0

Keep wondering whether your waking reality is a dream and you will wake up to the real. Votes: 0

that's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her. like burning alive. Votes: 0

I enjoy waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Who do I want to be today?' Votes: 0

I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling. Votes: 0

I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety. Votes: 0

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows. Votes: 0

At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath Votes: 0

I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day. Votes: 0

Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow. Votes: 0

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. Votes: 0

It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare. Votes: 0

The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking. Votes: 0

"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state. Votes: 0

Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking. Votes: 0

In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open. Votes: 0

The city was waking up to another day. I hadn't slept or changed my clothes in six days. Votes: 0

I hate waking up every morning to my alarm. I always bang my head on the steering wheel. Votes: 0

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. Votes: 0

After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning. Votes: 0

The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own Votes: 0

Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice. Votes: 0

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt. Votes: 0

I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare. Votes: 0

By understanding the meaning of common dreams, you can identify issues that want your attention in your waking life. Votes: 0

The noiseless din that we have long known in dreams, booms at us in waking hours from newspaper headlines. Votes: 0

In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind. Votes: 0

I would love to have the power to stop waking at 3 a.m. every night to check my e-mail. Votes: 0

Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day. Votes: 0

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one. Votes: 0

It's better to wake up alone knowing that you're alone, than waking up with someone and still be lonely Votes: 0

Contrary to what you might think, I don't spend every waking hour thinking about boys." "Just most waking hours? Votes: 0

Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep. Votes: 0

Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life. Votes: 0

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity. Votes: 0

I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day. Votes: 0

If you are 26 years old and you're waking up under Star Wars sheets... the Force is not with you. Votes: 0

So I'm into men now, even though they can be frightening. I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, non-Velcro-shoe-wearing man. Votes: 0

The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man." Votes: 0

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement. Votes: 0

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement Votes: 0

Knowing that you are living in a dreamworld is very liberating, because it gives you the option of waking up. Votes: 0

The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do. Votes: 0

In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard. Votes: 0

There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean. Votes: 0

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge. Votes: 0

Sometimes we complain, but there is something beautiful about waking up before everyone to get better at what we love. Votes: 0

Once waking into the realization that eternity is waiting in every moment, I discovered that wealth is time, not money. Votes: 0

You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence. Votes: 0

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning. Votes: 0

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. Votes: 0

After waking up, I take my vitamins and eat fruit or, sometimes, bread with garlic, which is good for your health. Votes: 0

When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up. Votes: 0

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss. Votes: 0

Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone. Votes: 0

Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike, we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem. Votes: 0

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping. Votes: 0

You wake up each day from the dream; but to be free, you must also wake up from the waking state. Votes: 0

Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers. Votes: 0

the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self! Votes: 0

There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment Votes: 0

I can very much relate to waking up inside of your life and saying to yourself, "How did I get here?" Votes: 0

What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up! Votes: 0

What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up! Votes: 0

Believe me when I tell you that waking up by your side, is the best thing that could happen to me. Votes: 0

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day. Votes: 0

I wouldn't want to spend every waking hour asking people for money. A, I can't do it, it's just not my nature. Votes: 0

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't. Votes: 0

We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human. Votes: 0

The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self Votes: 0

Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have. Votes: 0

Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed? Votes: 0

Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk. Votes: 0

You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming. Votes: 0

I once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands.......and not my own blood. Votes: 0

I wouldn't want to spend every waking hour asking people for money. A, I can't do it, it's just not my nature. Votes: 0

I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me. Votes: 0

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself. Votes: 0

In a special sense... the three great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep contain an entire spectrum of spiritual enlightenment. Votes: 0

Death for the Christian is to fall asleep in the arms of Jesus and waking up and finding out that you're home. Votes: 0

I don't remember any dream. All I remember is waking up and feeling that there had been a change while I was sleeping. Votes: 0

If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep. Votes: 0

ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am. Votes: 0

My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low. Votes: 0

On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return. Votes: 0

Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls. Votes: 0

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. Votes: 0

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life. Votes: 0

[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning... Votes: 0

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine. Votes: 0

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth. Votes: 0

None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings. Votes: 0

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer. Votes: 0

The whole world is a dream; even this (the waking state) is a dream ... What you dreamt last night does not exist now. Votes: 0

Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table. Votes: 0

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking. Votes: 0

If everything appears meaningless then congratulations to you! You have started on the path. This is the first sign of intelligence, of waking up. Votes: 0

Asleep you can experience many hours whilst only a few waking moments have passed. This is why dreams are an ideal platform for training. Votes: 0

Flickering lights anonymous doors my heart escaping in drips i'm still waking up but she's still sleeping this ICU is hotel for the dead Votes: 0

When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism. Votes: 0

We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall. Votes: 0

New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought. Votes: 0

I...have been in that weird state between dreaming and waking, where dreams could be memories and the real world could be a dream. Votes: 0

In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Votes: 0

Experience in itself wasn't enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I'd missed it. Votes: 0

and all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her Votes: 0

Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest. Votes: 0

Start going to bed earlier! It is a tough adjustment when you have had a summer of staying up late and waking up late. Votes: 0

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts. Votes: 0

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are? Votes: 0

A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to. Votes: 0

I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it. Votes: 0

In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks. Votes: 0

Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning. Votes: 0

I remember having my tonsils out when I was fifteen and waking up crying historically but not being able to stop. That was quite strange. Votes: 0

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep. Votes: 0

There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality. Votes: 0

Even though people spend more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else, people underestimate how work influences their overall wellbeing and daily experience. Votes: 0

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes. Votes: 0

The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see. Votes: 0

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him. Votes: 0

To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day. Votes: 0

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug… Votes: 0

The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean. Votes: 0

I feel like music does have a role to play in waking people up; it can be an alarm clock or it can be a lullaby. Votes: 0

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. Votes: 0

Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed. Votes: 0

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother? Votes: 0

To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme. Votes: 0

A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound. Votes: 0

What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers? Votes: 0

I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it. It'll still be the best part of waking up. Votes: 0

Still, waking up this early was just wrong. “Why can’t people be reasonable and only die after eleven A.M.?” I whined. Votes: 0

Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves. Votes: 0

In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep. Votes: 0

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing Votes: 0

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly. Votes: 0

Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality. Votes: 0

Your waking adult life is going to be spent in what you do professionally, so you'd better like the journey and not just aim for the destination. Votes: 0

There's one thing that's really great about waking up early, and it's not jogging or greeting the day - it's just that that's when they make doughnuts. Votes: 0

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing. Votes: 0

Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure. Votes: 0

In a life where waking hours are draped in the costume of horrid nightmare, where reality has suddenly become questionable, it's easy to be scared by dreams. Votes: 0

I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there. Votes: 0

It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours. Votes: 0

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. Votes: 0

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams. Votes: 0

Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero. Votes: 0

I can't imagine any greater fear Than waking up without you here And though the sun would still shine on My whole world would all be gone Votes: 0

There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'! Votes: 0

Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you. Votes: 0

What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up. Votes: 0

Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies. Votes: 0

It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off. Votes: 0

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt. Votes: 0

People are waking up in their homes - without conferences. They're waking up because life is waking them up, not because of some conference called "Body and Soul." Votes: 0

We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep. Votes: 0

By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. Votes: 0

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island. Votes: 0

Those heart-hammering nightmares that start to lose coherence even as you're waking up from them, but that still manage to leave their moldering fingerprints all across your day. Votes: 0

In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input. Votes: 0

This was no regular dream; this was a waking dream. Who was I? It had to have happened in my lifetime. I could feel it in my soul. Votes: 0

While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them. Votes: 0

The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody at the end of a concert. Votes: 0

You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up. Votes: 0

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things. Votes: 0

To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can! Votes: 0

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet. Votes: 0

Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams. Votes: 0

It's very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square - that's the craziest one. Votes: 0

I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head. Votes: 0

My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond? Votes: 0

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God. Votes: 0

Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges. Votes: 0

Imagine you waking up tomorrow and you can't get a bank account; you can't get a credit union account. Everything has gone away and you're now living in poverty. Votes: 0

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare. Votes: 0

If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him. Votes: 0

The grass is waking in the ground, / Soon it will rise and blow in waves - / How can it have the heart to sway / Over the graves, / New graves? Votes: 0

The Yoga Sutras offers a clear roadmap for the evolution of consciousness from ordinary states of awareness such as waking, dreaming, and sleeping - to higher states of consciousness. Votes: 0

The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true. Votes: 0

I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime. Votes: 0

I don't think that voters should be fixated on public policy. In a healthy republic, they wouldn't have to worry every waking hour about what their government is doing. Votes: 0

Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part of life's unvarying diurnal rhythm. Votes: 0

He said "woman" in the same way I'd say "Mmmmm, yummy chocolate" after waking up from hunger pains and finding a Hershey bar in an empty refrigerator. Votes: 0

But alas for the dreams that round us play! / For the plans of mortal making! / And alas for the false and fickle day / That looked so fair at waking! Votes: 0

I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life. Votes: 0

I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6) Votes: 0

Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever. Votes: 0

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thought,] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. Votes: 0

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone Votes: 0

I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth. Votes: 0

I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal. Votes: 0

And in that foggy place between sleep and waking, he could have been anyone. That was what she liked most about him: In the darkness, he became whomever she wanted. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My job, challenges, and simple things like waking up, going to my patio, and seeing that an hibiscus or a camellia opened during the night. It just makes me happy. Votes: 0

There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat. Votes: 0

But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life. Votes: 0

What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour. Votes: 0

Wake me up Wake me up, you said But I was sleeping, too I was dreaming But now I"m waking up Still waking up I can see the sun Votes: 0

A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care. Votes: 0

I stay away from dairy and I drink almond milk now. And I've also found that eating breakfast, like waking up and actually having it, helps me stay way healthy. Votes: 0

I did almost every job in the bank. It was real life, waking up in the morning, putting on a suit and tie and then having to go to work. Votes: 0

Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops. Votes: 0

I wondered what it would be like to die. Was it like going to sleep or like waking up? Was there no more time? Or did time go on forever? Votes: 0

The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell. Votes: 0

She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really happened, never realizing her goals, her hopes, her dreams. Votes: 0

I don't like waking up. I feel like staying in bed usually, but I can't because I've got two kids standing next to my bed, just eager to live another day. Votes: 0

We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds. Votes: 0

But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared. Votes: 0

I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment. Votes: 0

Dad has brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning! I said, 'Vati, why are you waking me up in the middle of the night? Are you on fire? Votes: 0

I have a sort of waking nightmare: to get this thing just about completed, and the last day to discover one little part that doesn't quite fit with the adjacent part. Votes: 0

Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know. Votes: 0

I love just going out; long drives, the ocean, my kids, new music, new gear, new plug-ins, coffee, and donuts at four in the morning. Even just waking up and writing. Votes: 0

When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe. Votes: 0

Choosing succulence is a deliberate act of personal revolution. It means waking up! Embracing your true self, studying your patterns, and letting out your most alive self. We all have one. Votes: 0

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep. Votes: 0

As for herself, every morning on waking she gives thanks to the God she doesn't disbelieve in. Although she can't credit him with saving her, she needs this outlet for her gratitude. Votes: 0

Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim are such, beside the breaking Amaranths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do. Votes: 0

But now, I get up every morning and go to the gym because I don't like waking up stiff or in pain and wondering if my hip is going to hurt me. Votes: 0

It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual. Votes: 0

I just love life. I'm excited about things in life. I think that if you're excited about life, you are excited about waking up and doing things with your life every day. Votes: 0

When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers. Votes: 0

And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life? Votes: 0

Waihi Beach. It's a lovely beach, and we're right on the shore and I get a lot of pleasure out of waking up in the morning and hearing the waves roll in. Votes: 0

Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned. Votes: 0

And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name? Votes: 0

In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes. Votes: 0

My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen. Votes: 0

Do something. Successful achievers wake up in the morning and go to bed in the night. In between their waking up and going to bed is occupied with action, action, action and action. Votes: 0

It's important to leave your face without makeup for a while after waking up...Let your skin breathe a while before applying your makeup, even if it means waking up a bit earlier. Votes: 0

On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved waking up early and playing cocktail party with the leftover debris Votes: 0

Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through. Votes: 0

I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it. Votes: 0

I can't think of anything worse after a night of drinking than waking up next to someone and not being able to remember their name, or how you met, or why they're dead. Votes: 0

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good. Votes: 0

If you're not spending every waking moment of your day radically rethinking the nature of the world-if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order-then you're wasting your day. Votes: 0

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning. Votes: 0

God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on. Votes: 0

When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream? Votes: 0

If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things. That's how it stays identified - as a body, as a you. Votes: 0

No, no, no, I don't snort no more, I'm tired of waking up on the floor. No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze, then it makes it hard to find the door. Votes: 0

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day? Votes: 0

I like waking up in the morning when I don't have to get up and think about the next thing, and I can just be present with the feeling of being alive, I guess. Votes: 0

A handsome young guy is stretching his arms and waking up. He is just about to reach for his coffee and is now being wished good morning by me. Have a lovely day ahead. Votes: 0

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me. Votes: 0

You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show. Votes: 0

Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams. Votes: 0

Strong people stand up for themselves. Stronger people stand up for others. The irony is that while sleep sometimes brings nightmares, it's the reality of my waking hours that can cause me the greater fear. Votes: 0

In the same way your life is the continuity of standing up, sitting down, laughing, sleeping, waking up, drinking, eating, and, of course, being born and dying. That is the continuity of the whole universe. Votes: 0

Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments. Votes: 0

I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about. Votes: 0

Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings toward action, rising from that deep inner knowledge of yourself that you have in dreams. Votes: 0

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton is now in Iowa. She's spending every waking minute of her day meeting ordinary people, and it's to prepare her for a job in which she will never again meet an ordinary person. Votes: 0

If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven't you ever tried to creep out of the room unnoticed the following morning? I've done that many times. Votes: 0

When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams. Votes: 0

When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams. Votes: 0

I kept loving and loving and loving. Every waking hour, I marveled on how these moments would make made me feel. I wanted to love the world and be the change it so deliciously craved. Votes: 0

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing. Votes: 0

It's entirely different waking up in the morning and praying. I read aloud six or seven different devotional books, one of which is the Bible and ask the Lord to be with me that day. Votes: 0

Dreams and waking life are both the same kinds of things. The difference is that dreaming is perceiving free of external constraints, whereas perceiving otherwise is dreaming true. Meaning what you dream about actually happens. Votes: 0