"I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up."
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"You have to wake up every day ready to start again."
"When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots."
"Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world."
"Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free."
"Every time I wake up I have this huge dreadlock in the back, and I don't know why. It's not like I sleep like a maniac or anything. It gets knots out really easy, and it's handy."
"If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money."
"Every moment, a voice, out of this world, calls on our soul, to wake up and rise."
"When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her."
"One breath at a time. One day at a time. Wake up, and be shredded. Cry for a while. Then stop crying and go about your day. You're not okay, but you're alive, and you will be okay, someday."
"Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other."
"In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life."
"Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up."
"Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?"
"No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God."
"Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of benefit. The bodhisattva-warrior, therefore, makes a vow to wake up not just for himself but for the welfare of all beings."
"I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it."
"The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses have the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into the situation of his accident, a situation from which he wakes up in another fright."
"I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That's all I really want out of life. That, and world domination."
"You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work."