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.
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.
The whole world is a dream; even this (the waking state) is a dream ... What you dreamt last night does not exist now.
Success now is waking up in the morning and being comfortable in my own skin. You can go to a job that pays well, but if you're not happy in yourself or if you're not grateful for what you have, it means nothing.
A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it -- that alone can be like waking up from a dream.
I was waking up at 5 A.M. when I was 9 working. I know that I'll only have to work harder if I want to make it to where I want to be. But I'm definitely not complaining.
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.
The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self
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.
There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment
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?
I love the game. I love waking up every morning with the goal to win a Slam for the first time.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
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.
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.
I sometimes compare starting a business to having a child. You have a moment of profound inspiration, followed by months of thankless hard work and waking up in the middle of the night.
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.
Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.
Something that helps me build more optimism in the dead of winter is not staying up too late and waking up early.
I...have been in that weird state between dreaming and waking, where dreams could be memories and the real world could be a dream.
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.
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.
"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
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!
By understanding the meaning of common dreams, you can identify issues that want your attention in your waking life.
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.
I think this is something special about Italy; waking up, taking the coffee in the morning and talking only about football.
The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.
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.
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!
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.
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.
On an average day, I will spend 90 percent of my waking moments working on 'Superwoman.' I'm a huge workaholic. My hobby is 'Superwoman.'
WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.
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.
The song "Sing for the Submarine" presents my dream world, which is way different from my waking world. It's set in the future and it's post-apocalyptic.
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.
Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.
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.
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.
Life's too short to be spending all your waking hours doing something you're not excited about. And when people are that excited, you can see it in the work.
and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love
Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
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.
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.
Large numbers of young people are waking up. And they are saying, "We are not here just to work for multinational corporations and make money for them. We are here to live. We have to find the meaning of life."
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.
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.
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.
I'm not gonna ever announce that I'm going to do an album again. Waking up with that on your head almost doesn't allow you to make the best album you can.
I think that we can learn so much if we pay attention to our dreams, whether when we are asleep or in waking dreams. There are connections that are absolutely incredible.
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.
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.
ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am.
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.
Better to die, and sleep
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.
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?
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.
In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.
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