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Waking Quotes

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Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
Black Elk

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2.
There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment
Marva Collins

3.
Waking up in TRUTH is so much better than living in a lie.
Idris Elba

4.
The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours
Eric Berne

5.
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?
Grace McCleen

6.
I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
Fernando Pessoa

7.
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.
Nikolai Gogol

8.
There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.
Sigmund Freud

9.
There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.
Elise M. Boulding

10.
Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.
Thomas Nagel

11.
We are in a waking dream... We see worlds where others scheme.
Hamza Yusuf

12.
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
Elyn Saks

13.
Success is waking up every day and doing what you want to do
Daymond John

14.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Margaret Fuller

15.
The best part of waking up, is Folgers in your cup!
Paul Stanley

16.
But I cannot forget that,
at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions;
and,
attentively considering those cases,
I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep,
that I feel greatly astonished;
and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming.
Rene Descartes

17.
If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority and questioning what's given and questioning what's expected of you, you're already on the cusp of finding something in yourself, and maybe waking something in somebody else.
Saul Williams

18.
The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen

19.
Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality
Oliver Sacks

20.
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.
W. H. Auden

21.
I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.
Lenny Bruce

22.
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.
Richard Linklater

23.
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.
Alex Garland

24.
Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.
Carl Jung

25.
Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike, we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.
Tarthang Tulku

26.
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.
Sam Harris

27.
We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

28.
A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.
Edna Ferber

29.
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
Miguel de Cervantes

30.
Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.
Sakyong Mipham

31.
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
George Eliot

32.
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.
Virginia Woolf

33.
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Novalis

34.
Collect the power. Because our fear has power. And our fear is paralyzing, and our fear sets us off course. So it's about gathering and collecting that power, waking it up. And dedicating your life to honoring it.
Rod Stryker

35.
I work virtually every waking hour.
Alvin Toffler

36.
sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!
Eric Jerome Dickey

37.
Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.
Robert A. Heinlein

38.
What are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question and that's this: Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?
Louis Mackey

39.
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
Walter Scott

40.
Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.
Thomas Hobbes

41.
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.
Nelson Mandela

42.
The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
Gail Porter

43.
No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.
Jack Smith

44.
After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
Casey Affleck

45.
I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.
Annie Dillard

46.
All my life I've been pleasin' everyone but me, waking up in someone else's dream.
Faith Hill

47.
All the time it's a changing And all the dreamers are waking.
Kate Bush

48.
Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life.
Leonard Jacobson

49.
After waking up, I take my vitamins and eat fruit or, sometimes, bread with garlic, which is good for your health.
Jordi Molla

50.
When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon.
Jena Malone