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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Spiritual Leader
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"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."

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Lara Stone Model
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"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."

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Russell Simmons Entrepreneur, Music Producer
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"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."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Every moment, a voice, out of this world, calls on our soul, to wake up and rise."

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"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."

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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
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"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."

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Salvador Dali Artist, Surrealist
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"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?"

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God."

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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
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"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."

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"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."

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Ryan Adams Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"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."

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