Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that? — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I want to be awake. I want to choose kindness, live & let live. I want joy, gratitude, and peace today. — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To inspire others, you must first inspire yourself. Only true passion can awake passion in others — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart.… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“Rhys only peered over his broad shoulder, to the cheerful restaurant behind us. 'That first night we were all here,' he said,… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Hey, Sunshine, your friend’s awake. What’s his name? (Starla) I don’t know, Starla. I didn’t ask. (Sunshine) You look like a Steve.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness. — Novalis Copy Share Image
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
When we suddenly awake to the realization that there is no barrier, and never has been, one realizes that one is all… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient… — William Blake Copy Share Image
It's no good being too wired; you've got to be awake and alert, without being overanxious. — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Reality is a magic lady, sometimes very mysterious. To me she is very passionate. She is real not only when she is… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
