“All of a sudden summer was there. It felt inevitable, like something you were waiting for.”
Ann Packer · The Dive from Clausen's Pier
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229 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“The smell of the grass, the taste of the rain, the feeling that anything was possible.”
Margaret Mitchell · Gone with the Wind
“In the summer I lie loosely in the grass and listen to the silence that moves.”
Eudora Welty · The Eye of the Story
“Every summer has a story.”
John Grisham · Sycamore Row
“The days are longer and the responsibilities are fewer, and you feel yourself expand and stretch and come alive again.”
Vivian Gornick · Unfinished Woman
“Endurance is not the absence of pain. It's the decision to keep your hands steady while you feel it.”
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“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
“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
“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
“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
