"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning." ― Carl Sandburg Topic(s): Morning More From Carl Sandburg "Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen." "I won’t take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth." "Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed." More In Morning "He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that’s how it turned out."― Ron Reagan "It’s not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you’re going to put your body through and having to do it. We don’t have days off."― Bryan Clay "The school-boy doesn’t force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning."― Hermann Ebbinghaus