“Every summer has a story.”
John Grisham · Sycamore Row
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The summer I was fifteen I felt alive all the way down to my toenails.
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“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
Wallace Stevens · Harmonium
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon. To me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
Henry James · Edith Wharton's memoir, A Backward Glance
“The days are longer and the responsibilities are fewer, and you feel yourself expand and stretch and come alive again.”
Vivian Gornick · Unfinished Woman
“Dignity under pressure is its own kind of answer to the world.”
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“Endurance is not the absence of pain. It's the decision to keep your hands steady while you feel it.”
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“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Emily Dickinson · Poem Fr949, c. 1864
“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth.”
Arthur Schopenhauer · "Counsels and Maxims", 1851
“Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it.”
Richard Whately · "Apophthegms", 1854
“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult.”
E.B. White
“This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.”
Maya Angelou
“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
