“The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.”
Monica Baldwin · "I Leap Over the Wall", 1949
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459 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“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
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
Jack Kornfield
“The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.”
Thomas Jefferson · Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 1825
“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
“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
“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
Buddha
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson · "Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson", 1870
“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
Ray Bradbury · Dandelion Wine, 1957
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
Henry David Thoreau · Journal, January 1852
“St. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain, for forty days it will remain; St. Swithin's day, if thou be fair, for forty days 'twill rain no more.”
Traditional English Proverb · July 15 folk saying, documented widely before 1800
“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
L.M. Montgomery · Anne of Green Gables, 1908
“A kind word is like a spring day.”
Russian Proverb
“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
Henry James · As quoted by Edith Wharton in A Backward Glance, 1934
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”
John Steinbeck · Travels with Charley, 1962
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
Jeannette Walls · The Glass Castle, 2005
