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“Recovering alcoholic guys wake up in the morning, and they have to think of a reason to get up, and then, once they're up, to not have a drink. It's like all these little heroic battles they have that they fight with and against every day of their lives.”

Thinking Littles Reason Guy Fighting Morning Drink Battle Wake Up Get Up Heroic Alcoholics Recovering Recovering Alcoholics

Author:Liam Neeson

“Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.”

Morning Feet Battle Mere Soldier Every Morning Buttons Mud Shields Superego Snooze Button

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.”

Morning Battle Resentment Every Morning Hostility Impatience Armor Inadequacy

Book:The End of Sorrow: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Vol I

Source: The End of Sorrow: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Vol I

“That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.”

“Like everyone else, I was at least peripherally involved in the antiwar movement. You woke up every morning feeling tormented about what was going on in Vietnam. It seemed to a lot of us like a catastrophe from the very beginning, inflicting immense and needless suffering on not only the American soldiers but on a lot of innocent peasants who were caught in a Cold War proxy battle - two million Vietnamese died during those years, and you woke up every morning knowing that that was going on.”

“Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the battle of 1066?' or 'How do these seatbelts work that go tight when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?' The answers are easy and are, respectively, 'Seven-thirty in the evening,' 'Ten-fifteen in the morning,' and 'Don't ask stupid questions.”

Knows Asks Easy Difficult Answers Morning Stupid Battle Ten Seven Evening Thirty Where You Are Fifteen Daddy Slam Brake Stupid Questions Difficult Questions

Author:Douglas Adams

“Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.”

“The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle”

Moments Waiting Morning Sun Worst Battle Campaigns Worst Moments

Book:Only Time Will Tell

Source: Only Time Will Tell