Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
"Use your life to wake you up."
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Wakes You
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Veronica Roth
Author
"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up"
Ryan Reynolds
Actor
"Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up."
John Lennon
Musician, Activist
"Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you."
Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
"Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude to everything, even difficult emotions, because of their potential to wake you up."
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"Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world."
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"Nobody else can really begin to sort out for you what to accept and what to reject in terms of what wakes you up and what makes you fall asleep. No one else can really sort out for you what to accept - what opens up your world - and what to reject - what seems to keep you going round and round in some kind of repetitive misery."
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"When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget."
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"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake."
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"Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep."
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"Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better."
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