Willa Cather Quotes

The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.

This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.

No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.

Americans live on the sunrise side of the mountain. The night is passing and we are ready for the day to come.

Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.

You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

Hopefully, we're still living in the land of second chances.

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night... All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere. The Vedas say, “All intelligences awake with the morning.

Everybody just needs a second chance.

It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.

Regardless of your past, your tomorrow is a clean slate.

Sweet Phosphor, bring the dayWhose conquering rayMay chase these fogs;Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!Light will repayThe wrongs of night;Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!

Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire.

He changed sunset into sunrise.

And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live will all be clean again, with fresh bread on the table.

Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.

Things are always better in the morning.

Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see.

It's always great to have another chance at something.

The business of second chances is everybody's business.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.