A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don't later fray. ― Marcia Carrington

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America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt. ― Malcolm X

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Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close. ― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

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I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality. ― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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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—then make that day count! ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

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I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up! ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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Time is the longest distance between two places. ― Tennessee Williams

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I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky. ― Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days

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Less is more. You should wear earrings or bracelets, but not both.

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