#awake

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

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

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#ask #awake #come #happened #i

I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn't done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us. ↗

— George Tenet

#awake #been #better #could #deserve

To awake from death is to die in peace. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#death #die #peace