When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love

‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together...

When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.