“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
Marcus Aurelius · "Meditations", Book II, c. 161–180 AD
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Jack Kornfield
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Rumi · "The Essential Rumi", translated by Coleman Barks
“First thing every morning before you arise, say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.”
Ovid · "Ars Amatoria", c. 2 BC
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”
Henry David Thoreau · Journal, 1859
“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Emily Dickinson · Poem Fr949, c. 1864
“The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.”
Thomas Jefferson · Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 1825
“Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.”
Prince
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
J.B. Priestley
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
William Blake · "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1793
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
Henry David Thoreau · Journal, 1840
“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
Lemony Snicket · "The Blank Book", 1999
