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| "A day... is a miniature
eternity." |
| --
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| "The sun is new each day." |
| -- Heraclitus |
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| "Always begin anew with the day, just as
nature does; it is one of the sensible things that nature
does." |
| -- George E. Woodbury |
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| "Only that day dawns to which we are
awake." |
| -- Henry David Thoreau |
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| "We sleep, but the loom of life never
stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is
weaving when it comes up in the morning." |
| -- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) |
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| "Either you run the day or the day runs
you." |
| -- Jim Rohn |
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| "Nothing is worth more
than this day." |
| -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| "I think in terms of the day's
resolutions, not the year's." |
| -- Henry Moore |
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"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved
by the level of thinking that created them." |
| -- Albert
Einstein (1875-1955), German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "The good people sleep much better at night than the bad
people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more." |
| -- Woody
Allen (b. 1935), American writer, comedian, & actor |
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"Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a
solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without
temperance." |
| -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist |
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“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.” |
| -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
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"Look to this day,
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your
existence;
the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well lived makes
every yesterday a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore to this day,
such is the salutation of the dawn." |
| -- The Sufi (1200 BC |
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| "What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It
is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time." |
| -- Crowfoot
(1821-90), Native American, Blackfoot, warrior, orator |
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| "To affect the quality of the day; that is
the art of life." |
| -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), American
writer, naturalist |
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| "Had we but the day, we could have hardly
imagined what a night might be; likewise,
had we only nights, we would seldom muse on what a day might be
bring. The truth is we would have probably never had the mind to
imagine such thoughts if we had not had both. Life as we know it
depends on both and makes its strategies in relation to the movement
of the sun across our planet." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002),
American writer |
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"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as
long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be
without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness." |
| -- Carl
Gustav Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist |
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| "It is common experience that a problem
difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of
sleep has worked on it." |
| -- John Steinbeck |
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| "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which
escape those who dream only by night." |
| -- Edgar
Allan Poe (1809-49), American writer |
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| "Each morning the day lies
like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure
prediction fits us perfectly.
The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking,
to pick it up." |
| --
Walter Benjamin
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- "The best thing about the future is that it comes
one day at a time."
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| -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
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"Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well
lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a
vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day." |
| -- Sanskrit Proverb |
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| "I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have
conquered my nightmares because of my dreams." |
| -- Dr. Jonas Salk (b. 1914), American
doctor, medical researcher |
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| "For what human ill does
not dawn seem to be an alleviation?" |
| --
Thornton Wilder
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| "They who dream by day are cognizant of many
things which escape those who dream only by night." |
| -- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49),
American writer |
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"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't
it." |
| -- Groucho Marx, 1890-1977 |
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| "The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and
knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's
dream." |
| -- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931),
Lebanese-born American mystic, poet, painter |
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| "Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the day,
put no trust in tomorrow)" |
| -- Horace (65-8 BC), Roman lyric poet |
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| "The afternoon knows what the morning
never suspected." |
| -- Swedish Proverb |
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| "There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as
long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be
without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness." |
| -- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961),
Swiss psychiatrist |
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| "Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware
of it; it is the future that makes laws for us today." |
| -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
(1844-1900), German philosopher |
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| "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man
to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." |
| -- Chinese Proverb |
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| "The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he
becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the
day he forgives himself he becomes wise." |
| -- Alden Nowlan |
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| "Tomorrow I'll think of some way . . . after all, tomorrow
is another day." |
| -- Scarlett O'Hara (Margaret
Mitchell character) |
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| Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate
life." |
| -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(4BC?-AD 65), Roman Stoic philosopher, writer |
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| "Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life--so quickly when
we don't watch it and so slowly if we do." |
| -- John Ernst Steinbeck
(1902-68), American writer |
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| "Everybody gets so much information all day long
that they lose their common sense." |
| -- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946),
American writer of experimental novels, essays, plays |
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| "A man is successful if he gets up in the
morning and gets to bed at night, and in between; does what he wants
to do." |
| -- Bob Dylan (b. 1941), American musician |
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| "With the fearful strain that is on me night and
day, if I did not laugh I should die." |
| -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-65),
16th US President |
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| "The air is precious to the red man, for all things share
the same breath-the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same
breath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a
man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench." |
| -- Chief Seattle (c. 1784-1866),
Chief of the Duwamish, Suquamish & allied tribes |
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| "For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my
brother tomorrow." |
| -- William Shakespeare
(1564-1616), English playwright, poet |
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| "Each time dawn appears,
the mystery is there in its entirety." |
| -- Reni Daumal
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| "Tis always morning
somewhere in the world." |
| -- Richard Henry Horne
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"I
don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four
beautiful sunsets."
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--
John Glenn |
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“Every evening I turn my
worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.” |
| -- Mary C. Crowley |
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| "I think, what has this day brought me,
and what have I given it?" |
| -- Henry Moore |
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| "Learn to reverence night
and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from
the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of
humanity." |
| -- Henry Beston
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| "Make sure you never, never argue at
night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle
anything until morning anyway." |
| -- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (b. 1890), Family
matriarch |
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| "While day by day the overzealous student stores
up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for
ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula,
until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course. By letting
each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to
be done gets done." |
| -- Lao-Tzu (6th century B.C.),
Legendary Chinese philosopher |
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| "Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and
be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at
dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving." |
| -- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931),
Lebanese-born American mystic, poet, painter |
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| "At first a small line of
inconceivable splendor emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun
appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying
every color of the landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering
light." |
| --
Ann Radcliffe
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| "Night, the beloved.
Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of
day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When
man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree." |
| --
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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| "In the country the
darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of
lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture
that hovers, biding its time." |
| --
Somerset Maugham
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| "I cannot walk through the
suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us
because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does." |
| --
Jorge Luis Borges
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| "In the night all cats are gray." |
| -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), Spanish
writer |
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| "Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a
night without moon or star." |
| -- Confucius (c. 551-479? BC), Chinese sage |
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- "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done
what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it
well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with
your old nonsense."
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| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
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