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“Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an end that day, I am going to eat the frosting off an entire carrot cake; just for a start. Then I will move onto vats of clam dip, pots of crime brûlée, nachos, M & M's etc. Then I will max out both my credit cards.”

Ifs World Ends Moving Turns Morning Crime Future News Wake Up Credit Checks Cards Etc Pot Cake Max Credit Card Dip Carrots Coming To An End Clams Vat Nachos

Author:Anne Lamott

“It is in the early morning hour that the unseen is seen, and that the far-off beauty and glory, vanquishing all their vagueness, move down upon us till they stand clear as crystal close over against the soul.”

Soul Moving Hours Morning Clear Glory Isolation Unseen Crystals Early Morning Beautiful Morning Vagueness Waking Up Every Morning

Author:Sarah Smiley

“The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars.”

Writing Together Moving Stars Water Morning Air All Things Wings Sand Mice Forsake Lizards Oar Grasshoppers

Book:John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“In the deep jungles of Africa, a traveler was making a long trek. Coolies had been engaged from a tribe to carry the loads. The first day they marched rapidly and went far. The traveler had high hopes of a speedy journey. But the second morning these jungle tribesmen refused to move. For some strange reason they just sat and rested. On inquiry as to the reason for this strange behavior, the traveler was informed that they had gone too fast the first day, and that they were now waiting for their souls to catch up with their bodies.”

Firsts Long Soul Reason Body Moving Waiting Morning Gone Journey Strange Behavior Sat Engaged Load Traveler Tribes Inquiry Jungle

Author:Lettie Cowman

“Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts the same way, their feet move the same way, and everybody runs the same way. It doesn't matter whether it's an alligator or a man or a baby or anything, they all move the same.”

Men Way Different Matter Reason Running Moving Morning Feet Baby Drawing Saturday Cartoon Animation Alligators Saturday Morning

Author:Chuck Jones

“My life is routine. I wake up early in the morning. I brush my teeth. I sit on the floor of the cell I do not go to breakfast. I stare at a gray cement wall. I keep my legs crossed my back straight my eyes forward. I take deep breaths in and out, in and out, and I try not to move. I sit for as long as I can I sit until everything hurts I sit until everything stops hurting I sit until I lose myself in the gray wall I sit until my mind becomes as blank as the gray wall. I sit and I stare and I breathe. I sit and I stare. I breathe.”

Trying Mind Long I Can Eye Moving Life Is Loses Hurt Morning Wall Wake Up Breaths Legs Breathe Teeth Cells Staring Breakfast Gray Routine Blank Brushes Deep Breath Cement Up Early

Book:My Friend Leonard

Source: My Friend Leonard

“... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping hare is caught in a marble panel.) A glaze is put over life. There is no flaw, no crack in the surface; a still reservoir, no ripple on its face. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. The waterfalls seemed frozen solid; the tops of the trees were still; the river hardly stirred, a serpent gently moving under its shimmering skin.”

“That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.”

Kind Long Ends Shows Lasts Beautiful Moving Asks Morning Gone Focus Serious Hollywood Ice Dancer Live By Quarters Ballet Rainbow Ballet Dancer Haze Skater Jumpers Serious Work

Author:Tana French

“I've been moving a little to the music while I worked ...and then I realize I am actually dancing. It feels wonderful, though I can feel how stiff my muscles are, how rigidly I've been holding myself...Mostly I've been moving cautiously, numbly, steeled because I know, at any moment, I may be ambushed by overwhelming grief. You never know when it's coming, the word or gesture or bit of memory that dissolved you entirely...It happens every day at first, then not for a day or two, then there's a week when grief washes in every morning, every afternoon.”

Knows Feels Firsts May Littles I Can Two Moments Happens Moving Bits Realizing Memories Grief Morning Wonderful Week Dancing Muscles Overwhelming Afternoon Gestures Every Morning

Author:Mark Doty

“What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for theAtlantic Ocean (and the Pacific Ocean). We greatly underestimate the serious implications to our own future.... Things move with such terrific speed these days, that it is really essential to us to think in broader terms and, in effect, to warn the American people that they, too, should think of possible ultimate results in Europe and the Far East.”

“I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.”

Mean Important Motivational Moving Morning Worry Greater Obstacles Priorities Over It Schemes Get Over

Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything