Quotes on Wakes You

Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then hooped his fingers through hers. Gretel looked up at him, so startled she might as well have been shot. 'I just wanted to wake you up', he said. Which is exactly what he did. One look at him and her heart was racing. One look, and whatever had been before was all over.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it’ll put you to sleep.

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.

Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude to everything, even difficult emotions, because of their potential to wake you up.

Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.