#awake

When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense. ↗

— Henry Reed

#awakening #awareness #enabling #fall #fascination

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

#awaken #been #discovered #discovery #down

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then? ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#aye #been #could #dream #flower

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#bed #happiest #life #lying #man

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake. ↗

— Norah Jones

#brain #going #keep #keep going #me

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#awakening #i #intellectually #kind #more

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#basic #basic understanding #citizenry #deserves #how

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#born #event #live #single #slowly

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#awake #eyes #morning #open #open your eyes

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#born #die #first #man #may