Who will tell whether

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. Erich Fromm

Most people do not

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience – unless they are still up. Ellen Goodman

Be pleasant until ten

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. Elbert Hubbard

Probably the happiest period

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt

I arise in the

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. E. B. White