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It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning
by Jonas Salk

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning
wondering what my intuition
will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea.
I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
- Jonas Salk

I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares.
I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
- Jonas Salk

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely.
You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no doubt that life can be a bumpy ride.
But so were those roller coasters you loved as a kid.
Savor the adventure.
Find excitement in the uncertainty and the constant change.
Even let a touch of fear add spice to your life -
as you did on that roller coaster.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wake up to profound perspective that allows me to
celebrate the choices of my moments, of my life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear
to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
- Sylvester Stallone

Praying is important when you wake up
at two o'clock in the morning
feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane.
You'd wake up in a concert and think,
Wow, how did I get here?
- John Lennon

Oh, come on, Shrek, wake up and smell the pheromones!
- the movie Shrek (2001)

As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau

Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker

They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne

It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi

Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless

Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
- Lee Iacocca

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden

Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius

A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

Never give up.
- Anonymous

I won't give up 'til goats sing and walruses fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu

The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Circumstances don't defeat you -
you defeat yourself when you give up.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie