Morning Quotes - Page 18

• The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.

  Patricia Briggs

  Home, Writing, Night

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• The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dream, Witty, Clever

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• Most people believe that the Christian commandments, e.g. to love one's neighbor as oneself, are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Believe, People

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• Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.

  Janet Frame

  Mean, Hands, Order

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.

  Paul Theroux

  Dark, Lakes, Long

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances.

  Israel Shenker

  Past, America, Way

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.

  John Hersey

  Girl, Past, Eight

  John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”

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• I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.

  Gene Hackman

  Writing, Eight, Wife

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• Ideas rise with new mornings but never die.

  Frank Marshall Davis

  Ideas, Dies

  Frank Marshall Davis, John Edgar Tidwell (2002). “Black Moods: Collected Poems”, p.11, University of Illinois Press

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• I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song: My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Girl, Song, Names

  "Bruce Cockburn: A Veteran Traveler Finds 'Comfort'". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. March 12, 2011.

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• I love the sound of the distant bugle call in the countryside in early morning I love to be pushed in busy crowds I love the sound of gongs and trumpets along the streets I love circus performances I even wish to die in this moment of glorious encounter.

  Ai Qing

  Wish To Die, Joy, Sound

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• If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

  A. N. Wilson

  Lunch, Monsters, Active

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• I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.

  James Herbert

  Desks, Terrible

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• Good morning, God, I love You! What are You up to today? I want to be part of it.

  Norman Grubb

  Love You, Want, Today

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• If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President's military policy, my guess is that you would probably find it reported somewhere the next morning in the New York Times. But when 300 Congressmen endorse the President's policy, the next morning it is apparently not considered news fit to print.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  New York, Military, Media

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• Give humanity hope and it will dare and suffer joyfully, not counting the cost - hope with laughter on her banner and on her face the fresh beauty of morning.

  John Elof Boodin

  Hope, Laughter, Giving

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• I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Nature, Purple, Worry

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• The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me. The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me. The strength of the fire, the taste of the salmon, the trail of the sun, and the life that never goes away, they speak to me. And my heart soars.

  Chief Dan George

  Nature, Stars, Flower

  Chief Dan George, “My Heart Soars”

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• I would like you to rise each morning and know that you are heterosexual and that you choose to be heterosexual - that you are and choose to be a member of a privileged and dominant class, one of your privileges being not to notice.

  Marilyn Frye

  Heterosexuality Is, Class, Privilege

  Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr

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• The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it — whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend.

  Lucy Larcom

  Work, Eye, Night

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• The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy.

  Ernesto Sabato

  Funny, Country, Humorous

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• Children, everyone should try to wake up before five in the morning. The ideal time for spiritual practices like meditation and chanting is Brahma Muhurta. During this period, sattvic qualities are predominant in nature. Moreover, the mind will be clear and body energetic.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Practice

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• When you get up in the morning, let your first thought be directed towards God.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Meditation, Firsts, Get Up

  Twitter post from Nov 10, 2017

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• Children, set aside at least half an hour in the morning and in the evening for spiritual practices. After bathing in the morning, a family should sit together and worship. Archana may be performed by chanting the 108 or 1000 Names of Devi or our chosen deity. We can also chant our mantra, meditate or sing hymns at this time.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Practice

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• What meaning do our lives have if we cannot set aside at least one hour a day out of 24 for thinking about God? Think how many hours we spend reading the newspaper, gossiping and doing various useless acts! Children we can definitely set aside an hour for sadhana if we really want it. That is our real wealth. If we cannot spare a whole hour at a stretch, keep apart half an hour in the morning and again in the evening.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Real, Reading

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