No joke- I’d leave meetings crying all the time. -- Kanye West

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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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Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do. ― C.S. Lewis

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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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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping. ― Oscar Wilde

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I love the smell of book ink in the morning.― Umberto Eco

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The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest gloomiest will wear on to a morning.― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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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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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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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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