Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day.
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Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day.
I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.
How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.
Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
While I'm dreaming, Wake up screaming, Cuz I can hear them suckas scheming.
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow—that’s vulnerability.
Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.
A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.
When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.
You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and look at you and I feel closer to you when you’re like that, unguarded, than when you’re awake. When you’re awake you’re like someone with her eyes closed, watching a movie on the inside of your eyelids. I can’t reach you anymore. Once upon a time I could, but not now, and not for a long time.
One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.
And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.
Granny Weatherwaz was a witch. That was quite acceptable in the Ramtops, and no one had a bad word to say about witches. At least, not if he wanted to wake up in the morning the same shape as he went to bed.
There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a heavy stone or loving you. Loving you is like lifting a heavy stone. It would be easier not to do it and I'm not quite sure why I am doing it. It takes all my strength and all my determination, and I said I wouldn't love someone again like this. Is there any sense in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance?
What is it? Nothing. I had a bad dream. What did you dream about? Nothing. Are you okay? No. He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said. I was crying. But you didnt wake up. I'm sorry. I was just so tired. I meant in the dream.
We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.
Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.
I'm just trying to wake up - I'm so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn't care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake.
It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.
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