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sleep acceptance creating-life
Alan Watts Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.
sleep bridges oscars
Al Lewis Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!
sleep silence listening
Edward Hoagland Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.
sleep waste wasting-time
Edith Piaf For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.
sleep men night
Edith Stein Who can sleep on the night that God became man?
sleep reality sea
Edith Sitwell Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.
sleep artist iphone
David Hockney Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?
sleep brain levels
David Brooks If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.
past influence vain
Charles Dickens It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
past political reform
Charles Caleb Colton Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.
past men miracle
Charles Caleb Colton There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.
past water people
Charles Dickens "People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."
past years tvs
Charles Stross My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).
past years judging
Charles Spurgeon It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.
past giving video
Alanis Morissette Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.
past puppets driven
Alan Watts We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.
past dangerous-situations risk
Alan Watts The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.
may oppression begets
Charles Dickens Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
may invention condensation
Charles Caleb Colton Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
may maintaining conquer
Charles Caleb Colton Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.
may modern poet
Charles Caleb Colton Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
may finals tomorrow
Charles Spurgeon To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.
may certain made
Charles Spurgeon We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.
may forget ifs
Alan Watts If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
may conversation used
Alan Moore While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.
may mood used
Alan Bennett It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.