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Lydia Davis Author
Morning

"Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly. She cries out, "Emergency, emergency," and one of us runs to her and holds her until her fears are calmed. We know she is making it up; nothing is has really happened to her. But we understand, because there is hardly one of us who has no been moved at some time to do just what she has done, and every time, it has taken all our strength, and even the strength of our friends and families, too, to keep us quiet."

Running Taken Morning
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Daisaku Ikeda Buddhist Leader, Author
Morning

"Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth."

Morning Spring Buddhist
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Cam Newton Football Player
Morning

"With three boys in the house, my mother was always on us when growing up about keeping our faces clean, washing behind our ears, and brushing our teeth. So I still take my morning routine seriously."

Mother Morning Growing Up
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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Morning

"Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?"

Night Morning Coffee
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Colin Wilson Author, Philosopher
Morning

"When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds."

World Eye Morning
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Warren Adler Author, Screenwriter
Morning

"Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since."

Writing Morning Careers
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William Blake Poet, Painter
Morning

"O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn Thine angel eyes upon our western isle, Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring! The hills tell each other, and the listening Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth, And let thy holy feet visit our clime. Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee."

Eye Morning Spring
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Morning

"Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day."

Real Morning Dark
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Mae West Actress, Singer, Screenwriter
Morning

"You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink."

Night Morning Up Early
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Morning

"I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to Society. But it sometimes happens that I cannot easily shake off the village. The thought of some work will run in my head and I am not where my body is - I am out of my senses. In my walks I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?"

Thinking Running Morning
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Muhammad Religious Leader
Morning

"If you rely on God as He ought to be relied upon, He will provide you as He provides the birds; they go out empty and hungry in the morning and come back big bellied at eventide."

Morning Bird Hungry
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Morning

"Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it had been for many weeks. ... And suddenly, at the very moment when, so far, I mourned H. least, I remembered her best. Indeed it was something (almost) better than memory; an instantaneous, unanswerable impression. To say it was like a meeting would be going too far. Yet there was that in it which tempts one to use those words. It was as though the lifting of the sorrow removed a barrier."

Heart Memories Morning
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Barbara Jordan Politician, Lawyer
Morning

"I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting thing for today?' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow."

Life Motivational Morning
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Andrea Jung Business Executive
Morning

"There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?"

Morning Friday Monday
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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright
Morning

"I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings."

Morning Peace Wings
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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
Morning

"Only the individual who is solitary is like a thing placed under profound laws, and when he goes out into the morning that is just beginning, or looks out into the evening that is full of happening, and if he feels what is going on there, then all status drops from him as from a dead man, though he stands in the midst of sheer life."

Men Law Morning
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Teju Cole Author, Photographer
Morning

"The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening."

Mean Morning Emotional
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