Quotes about day
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“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

Life, Happiness, Thinking, Heart

“One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.”

Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) German historian and philosopher

Source: The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality

Color

“I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

“Never thought I’d see the day when you’d throw your arms around a vam - someone like me”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Books, Tree

“Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.”

Umberto Eco book The Prague Cemetery

Source: The Prague Cemetery

Understanding

“What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.”

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“Calvin's Dad: It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.
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Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Something Under the Bed Is Drooling
Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

World

“I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Books

“The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that
helps him get through the day”

Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer

Source: God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

Help

“My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.”

Howard Thurman (1899–1981) American writer

Life

“I looked around. As flock leader, everyone was expecting me to make a decision. Jeb's presence here would bring uncertainty, chaos, probably danger.
It would perk up my day.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Angel

Decision

“I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.”

Og Mandino book The Greatest Salesman in the World

Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World

“One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive the emotions that filled it. Happy hours underlined in red pencil, dark ones in black…”

Arturo Pérez-Reverte book The Club Dumas

Source: The Club Dumas

Happiness, Books

“One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Time, Good Morning, Cute

“Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day- like writing a poem or saying a prayer.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea

Source: Gift from the Sea

Flowers, Sense

“Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”

Howard Thurman (1899–1981) American writer

Source: Meditations of the Heart

Peace, Beauty, Joy

“Though much is taken, much abides; and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved
earth and heaven, that which we are, we are—
Unyielding.”

Paullina Simons book Tatiana and Alexander

Source: Tatiana and Alexander

“The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

Night

“There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go…”

Danielle Steel Wanderlust

Source: Wanderlust

Soul

“And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

Dreams, Girl, Sea

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

Margaret Atwood book Bluebeard's Egg

Source: Bluebeard's Egg

Spring, Beauty

“I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear.
"Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock.
Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

Dogs

“If you in the morning
Throw minutes away,
You can't pick them up
In the course of a day.
You may hurry and scurry,
And flurry and worry,
You've lost them forever,
Forever and aye.”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“The whole crew sat on the deck, without a storm or a monster attack to worry about for the first time in days, and ate ice cream. Well, except for Frank, who was lactose intolerant. He got an apple.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Time

“I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Happiness, Forgiveness

“I'm a million different things every day of the week.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: P.S. I Love You

“I'll never be her first.
But one day I'll be her last.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Feversong

“There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, tonight and tomorrow and all the days after that. He let go of my hand.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Time

“Yes, I'm a hermit. Mostly I brood," Mad Rogan said. "Also, I'm very good at wallowing in self-pity. I spend my days steeped in melancholy, looking out the window. Occasionally a single tear quietly rolls down my cheek.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

Tear, Madness

“Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Keys to the Demon Prison

“The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.”

Daniel Kahneman book Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

Idea, Past, Future

“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”

Bashō Matsuo book Oku no Hosomichi

Matsuo Bashō, Narrow Road to the Interior and other writings, Boston, 2000, p. 3 (Translation: Sam Hamill)
Oku no Hosomichi
Variant: The journey itself is my home.

Home

“It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way the red light, breaking at the close from under a low sombre sky, reached out in a long shaft and played over old wainscots, old tapestry, old gold, old colour.”

Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic

Way, Autumn, Light

“That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.”

Sophie Kinsella book Shopaholic Abroad

Source: Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

Love, World

“Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Decision

“An affirmation to say everyday:

The healing power of God is working in me right now. Eveyr day I get better and better in every way.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

God, Way

“Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys.
Make your lives extraordinary”

Tom Schulman (1950) American film director, screenwriter

Boy, Graduation

“I'll never understand how a man can live his life
With his finger on the self-destruct button,
Holding it there day after day,
Blinded by an obsession to press it
But lacking the conviction to do even that.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: Bruiser

Life, Understanding

“She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark. She taught herself to walk in the light, though it was not easy.”

Justin Cronin The Passage

Source: The Passage

Thinking, Light

“And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.”

John Donne (1572–1631) English poet

Source: The Complete English Poems

Night

“Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

Love

“Making Room:
When I first met him, I knew in a moment I would have to spend the next few days re-arranging my mind so there'd be room for him to stay.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“Each day has a color, a smell.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni book The Mistress of Spices

Source: The Mistress of Spices

Color

“They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Death, Way, Time

“He had arrived at Camp Half-Blood thanks to Apollo. Now, on what would likely be his last day at camp, he was stuck with a son of Apollo.
‘Whatever,’ Nico said. ‘But we have to hurry. And you’ll follow my lead.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“Being turned into a lizard can really mess up your day.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“We think of mortality so little these days…
I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones.
Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I:
As I am so will you be…”

Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

Death, Thinking

“I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.”

Alberto Manguel (1948) writer

Source: The Library at Night

Books, Feeling, Waiting, Reading

“Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.”

Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World

Source: The Eye of the World

Hunger

“Curse us eh/I'll make you pay!/I don't want to rhyme all day!”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

“Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Life, Feeling, Personality

“This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Black Blood

Age, Problem

“I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

People, Stupidity, Time, Night

“Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Time, Past

“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

Love, Life, Men

“It's a long hard road ahead for you, little warrior. Enjoy a happy day while you can.

—Boldred”

Brian Jacques book Martin the Warrior

Source: Martin the Warrior

Happiness

“Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Variant: You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon... everything's different.

Change

“Sometimes I worry that there’s not enough room in my brain for both my dreams and reality that I’m a hard drive with limited gigabytes and one day I won’t be able to maintain the firewall between them. I wonder if that’s what senility is.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Dreams, Reality

“One day, you will say it to me again. You will be sober. And you will mean it.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Chicks Kick Butt

“History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.”

Ian Fleming book Casino Royale

Variant: History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Source: Casino Royale

History, Change, Parting

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

Night, Funny, Attitude

“Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Books, Lying, Kiss, Summer

“She loved you in the morning because the day was new.”

Zadie Smith book The Autograph Man

Source: The Autograph Man

Love

“For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!”

Caroline Myss (1952) author from the United States

Source: Why People Don't Heal and How They Can: A Practical Programme for Healing Body, Mind and Spirit

Time

“One day you're young with all your fine plans for the future. The next you're in the future and it doesn't look at all the way you thought it would.”

Jayne Ann Krentz (1948) American novelist

Source: Burning Lamp

Way, Future

“I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.

The day you die.”

Yasunari Kawabata book Beauty and Sadness

Source: Beauty and Sadness

Age, Business

“If you look at the sky that way, it’s this massive shifting poem, or maybe a letter, first written by one author, and then, when the earth moves, annotated by another. So I stare and stare until, one day, I can read it.”

Maria Dahvana Headley (1977) American writer

Source: Magonia

Way, Reading

“Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.”

Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves

Source: House of Leaves

“All day I've built
a lifetime and now
the sun sinks to
undo it.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Source: The Complete Poems

Sun

“I like the way he looks at me, like I am a wood nymph that he happened upon one day and just had to take home to keep.”

Jenny Han book Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Way, Home

“Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

Death

“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Misattributed

World

“The dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows and the dreamer just a vessel that must follow where it goes. We must lean from what's behind us never knowing what's in store keeps each day a contant battle just to stay between the shore”

Garth Brooks (1962) American country music artist

The River, written by Victoria Shaw and G. Brooks.
Song lyrics, Ropin' the Wind (1991)
Context: You know a dream is like a river,
Ever changin' as it flows.
And a dreamer's just a vessel
That must follow where it goes.
Trying to learn from what's behind you,
And never knowing what's in store
Makes each day a constant battle
Just to stay between the shores... andI will sail my vessel
'Til the river runs dry.
Like a bird upon the wind,
These waters are my sky.
I'll never reach my destination
If I never try.
So I will sail my vessel
'Til the river runs dry.

Dreams, Change

“Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

Life, People, Cars, Hurt

“One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.”

Salvador Plascencia The People of Paper

Source: The People of Paper

Forgiveness

“Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990)
Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

Life, Change

“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“Any healthy man can go without food for two days--but not without poetry.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Food

“Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death”

Cressida Cowell book How to Train Your Dragon

Source: How to Train Your Dragon

Death

“The rules are the rules for a reason. Being a Shadowhunter, a good one, is about more than just training fourteen hours a day and knowing sixty-five ways of killing a man with salad tongs.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Way, Training

“As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.”

Wei Wu Wei (1895–1986) writer

Home, Thinking

“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Source: Self-Consciousness

Death, Time, Personality, Dead

“and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.”

Khaled Hosseini (1965) novelist

Death, God, Fear

“The night is full of mystery. Even when the moon is brightest, secrets hide everywhere. Then the sun rises and its rays cast so many shadows that the day creates more illusion than all the veiled truth of the night.”

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes book Demon in My View

Source: Demon in My View

Truth, Secret, Sun, Night

“(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."
-David Levithan (Every Day)”

David Levithan book Every Day

Variant: I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
Source: Every Day

“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Letter to Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (24 April 1816)
1810s

People, Evil

“Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity”

Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer

Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun