Simone Giertz Quotes

Studies have shown that children are less likely to wake up to a horn than the sound of a mother's voice.

There are only three things that stop me sleeping: hunger, the odd bad dream and cramp in the arches of my feet - it's crippling, as if somebody's trying to tie your foot in a reef knot.

I try to wake up naturally but set an alarm so I don't sleep in too late.

No one wants to get up at 5 A.M.

Putting your feet in ice cold water? That's not fun.

I wake up at 6 A.M. and start with yoga. I'm by no means a morning person, but I've trained myself to become one. My husband wakes up at 4:30 A.M., so he makes me feel like a loser. When you wake up and no one is in the bed, it kind of gets you up.

I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.

I wake up naturally and begrudgingly around 6:10 A.M. That's wired in so deeply that I wake up at that time no matter where I am, in any time zone. I wish I could sleep later.

I hate when I get stiff, and I really notice that.

I wake up at 4 or 5 in the morning every day.

Even if I go to sleep late I'm still going to wake up early.

We wake up at 5 A.M. every day whether Howard has to get up for his radio show or not.

I was playing basketball, and I had hemorrhoids in high school.

I usually wake up really early because I keep myself on East Coast time.

I set my alarm for 7:30 A.M., but it's really hard for me to wake up in the mornings.

I like to go to bed very early and get up very early.

No one's comfortable with losing.

The mask is a pain thing. It's clammy, and your body is moving all over, and you're locked into this thing, and you can't get out.

Put someone on a horse looking cold and wet, and they don't have to act. They just are cold and wet.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

I selected an enormous Marine Corps emblem to be tattooed across my chest. It required several sittings and hurt me like the devil, but the finished product was worth the pain. I blazed triumphantly forth, a Marine from throat to waist. The emblem is still with me. Nothing on earth but skinning will remove it.

He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.

There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.