Awakening Quote by Anonymous

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great…

— Fran Lebowitz

Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.

— Craig Silvey

A lot of our young people are sleep-walking, dreaming that they're awake, and lots of aspects of society initially go about keeping it so.

— Lorraine Toussaint

“Being awake is an acceptance of the way the world flows, allowing it to be as it is instead of trying to change it.…

— Anonymous

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in…

— Henry David Thoreau

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in…

— Henry David Thoreau

For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one…

— Herman Melville

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use…

— William James

We are most asleep when awake.

— Paul Reps

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

— Plato

We are asleep people, unconscious people, and this is what is serious. Unfortunately, we think the best of ourselves and not even suspect that…

— Samael Aun Weor