Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream. — Richelle Mead
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other. — H. P. Lovecraft
Short Waking Life Quotes
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. — Paul Valery
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. — Frank Herbert
I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up. — Fernando Pessoa
Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams. — Hiromu Arakawa
When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake. — P.D. Ouspensky
I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento) — Christopher Nolan
Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. — Carl Jung
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. — James Augustine
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. — James Joyce
Top 10 Waking Life Quotes
Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today. — Joel Osteen
There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up. — George Burns
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. — Anne Baxter
Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across America that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned. — Donald Trump
Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there — Pete Wentz
If you wake up whenever you want, and you slept for 10 hours, and you're lazy getting out of bed, then I believe that affects your whole life in a negative way. — Jocko Willink
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. — Mahatma Gandhi
It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. — James David Vance
The ride does not require an explanation, just participants. — Sonny Barger
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion. — Nhat Hanh
Waking Life Image Quotes
I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Don't start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every morning we wake up is the first day of the rest of our life.
Waking Up To The Love Of Your Life Quotes
Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. — Jim Morrison
You marry somebody you love, that you feel like you want to spend the rest of your life with, that you're excited to wake up with every morning if you enjoy spending the day with. Right now... my wife is my best friend, by far my best friend. — Charlie Daniels
This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling. — Martin Amis
Go to sleep with visions of what you love. Let your dream vision marinate overnight. Wake up with your positive, hopeful thoughts in place, ready to guide you through a day in which you step ever closer to the life you dream of. — Wayne Dyer
Authentic gratitude is a way of life. When you wake up in the morning let your first thought be one of thanksgiving that you have another day to walk in the love of God. As you go through your day, see the Giver behind all of the gifts freely being given to you. — Michael Beckwith
Wake Up Each Day Quotes
I wake up each and every day with a smile on my face knowing I get to do something musically. — 2 Chainz
Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up. — Walter Benjamin
We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day. — Orlando Bloom
Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous. — Mary Schmich
Time can't be managed. I merely manage activities. Each night, I write down on a sheet of paper a list of the things I have to accomplish the next day. And when I wake up ... I do them. — Earl Nightingale
Know that TODAY, and each and everyday literally becomes the BEST day of your life, when YOU choose to see that it is. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, it only matters what's going on inside of you. — Hal Elrod
I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me. — Veronica Roth
No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs. — John Spence
On the business side, innovative leaders are beginning to wake up to the fact that this non-stop work trend is bad for business: Google Ireland tested a program called Dublin Goes Dark, where employees turned over their phones at the end of each work day. It seems like a sea change is ahead. — Katrina Onstad
I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations mental illness clouds our judgment. — Adam Hamilton
Waking Up In The Morning Quotes
In the morning the sunflower blossoms due to the sun's rays. This morning I just wanted to remind you that my heart blossoms with love for you everyday I wake up and it is going to do that forever. — Sheila Carey
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese — Steven Wright
Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift. — Liam Neeson
Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It's just a little while, and then it burns away... Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality. — Charles Bukowski
People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator. — Muhammad Yunus
Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning. — Arnold Schoenberg
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. — Frank Sinatra
I feel a lot healthier when I'm having sex. Physically. I feel all these jitters when I wake up in the morning. Just energy jitters. I take vitamins, I work out every day. When I'm having sex, I don't have that. — Alyssa Milano
Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead. — Howard Cosell
Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it. — Harvey Mackay
In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air. — Charlotte Mason
The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.' And so it starts. — Joseph Campbell
Life is good. I've got a apartment that is paid for with rap money. It's good. It's amazing. It's a blessing. I wake up every day and appreciate how much of a blessing this is getting to do this. But it is important to always stay humble, grounded, focused, and maintain that same ambition you had when you had nothing. — G-Eazy
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. — Dr. Seuss
There's a time in your life where you're not quite sure where you are. You think everything's perfect, but it's not perfect... Then one day you wake up and you can't quite picture yourself in the situation you're in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it. — Tom DeLonge
The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep. — Geoffrey Chaucer
That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it's all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort - but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that's still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do - that's a huge piece to moving your life forward. — Jocko Willink
I fear waking up one morning and finding out my life was all for nothing. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. When you're kind to someone in trouble, you hope they remember and are kind to someone else and so on. Soon it will be like a wildfire. — Whoopi Goldberg
I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare. — Ned Vizzini
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. — Kevyn Aucoin
When you know clearly what you want, you'll wake up every morning excited about life. — Mark Victor Hansen
Waking up early and working out will completely change your life. One tiny action with massive ripple effects. — Sahil Bloom
It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake someday and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out to where we can never return. — Annie Dillard
Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos. — Jackie Gleason
They lived and laughed and loved and left. — James Joyce
Life's a game made for everyone and love is the prize. So wake me up when it's all over - when I'm wiser and I'm older. All this time I was finding myself and I didn't know I was lost. — Avicii
And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible. — Richard Avedon
The only thing I have is a burning desire to do something worthwhile with my life. I wake up every morning with love in my heart and fire in my belly. — Chatri Sityodtong
Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops. — Charles Scott Sherrington
It's important to wake up everyday and remind yourself what you're working towards. You create your own life, it's not set out there for you. — Sayings
If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings. — Susan Polis Schutz
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to. — Robin Williams
The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was going to go to med school. My father's dream was that all of his kids become doctors. I realized in school I didn't like it. When he died, it was like a wake-up call. Life is too short to do something you don't want to do. — Adepero Oduye
When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream? — Rene Descartes
Life is not a dress rehearsal - wake up every day excited to live out your purpose. — Andrew Wommack
Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it. — Joe Kapp
In my perfect day, I wake up next to the woman of my dreams, and she's crying tears of joy because she's so excited about the life we have together. — Lewis Howes
The important thing in life is having a passion, something you really love doing, and you take joy in the fact that you get to wake up every day and do it. — Michael J. Massimino
Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it. — Proverbs
The decisions you make about your work life are especially important, since most people spend more of their waking lives working than doing anything else. Your choices will affect, not only yourself and those closest to you, but in some way the whole world. — Laurence Boldt
I look at you, angel, and I want you so badly. I want to be with you, listen to you, talk to you. I want to hear you laugh and hold you when you cry. I want to sit next to you, breathe the same air, share the same life. I want to wake up to you like this every day forever. I want you. — Sylvia Day
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