A Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no gains have meaning unless accomplished in a state of wakefulness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau
American - Author
July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

I'm in a body, and when my sleep ends, I'm awake. I don't really understand the... that's not really a choice. I mean unless I chose to stay in bed, but I'd still be awake.

Gary Kraftsow

Loads of blokes think they're funny, but it counts for nothing unless you get up and have a go.

Lee Mack

Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.

Jack Kerouac

Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.

William Shakespeare

I don't feel awake in the morning unless I've showered.

Stella Maxwell

Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what counts.

Emmanuel Macron

Awake asleep ought to be with us - So he may see dreams in wakefulness.

Rumi

It has been my experience as a teacher over the years and incarnations that what really counts are not techniques. What really counts is spirit, love. What really counts is a sense of propriety and dedication.

Frederick Lenz

Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.

Karel Appel

The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.

Rhonda Byrne

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

Gautama Buddha

Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are.