Famous Quotes

"The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows."

Gaston Bachelard on Morning

More quotes about Morning

• "Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."

  Dalai Lama on Morning

• "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."

  Marcus Aurelius on Morning

• "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Morning

• "If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first."

  Mark Twain on Morning

• "Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."

  Kevyn Aucoin on Morning

More quotes by Gaston Bachelard

• "A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."

• "The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams."

• "If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."

• "Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books."

• "If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."