“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
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266 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“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
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
Maud Hart Lovelace · Betsy-Tacy, 1940
“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.”
James Russell Lowell · The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848
“I'm always going to compete. That's just who I am.”
Jalen Brunson · NBA media availability, 2024
“Family means everything to me. Everything I do is for them.”
Jalen Brunson · NBA media day, 2022
“I'm not trying to be anybody else. I'm just trying to be the best version of myself.”
Jalen Brunson · NBA media availability, 2023
“I learned so much from Coach Wright. The way he built culture, the way he taught us to play for each other.”
Jalen Brunson · Interview referencing Villanova, 2022
