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Jai Ganesh

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Awake Quotes

Awake Quotes

1. Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. - Walter Scott

2. Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached. - Swami Vivekananda

3. Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. - Dale Carnegie

4. Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? - Leonardo da Vinci

5. A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? - Ernest Hemingway

7. I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. - Ronald Reagan

8. I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. - Rene Descartes

9. I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don't accept it with much enthusiasm either awake or in the dreams. - Alan Turing

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

11. I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep. - Stan Laurel

12. Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali. - Salvador Dali

13. How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? - Plato

14. As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake. - Mark Twain

15. I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know. - Pele

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

17. Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house... and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both. - Michelle Obama

18. When it comes to the New Year, I make it a point to catch my mum and dad awake before the clock strikes 12. Then, I celebrate the night with friends. - Amy Jackson

19. In the very early years of our marriage I took seriously ill and I had to be hospitalised in London. Leaving everything aside, my Jaan was by my side, staying awake at times while I slept secure in the knowledge that I have strong hands clasping my hand, praying silently for my recovery. - Saira Banu

20. All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. - Plutarch.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.