Jeanette Winterson Quotes

There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.

Things are always better in the morning.

New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night, we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more.

I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.

I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning; it suggests something opening up.

I wake up every morning new, free as a bird.

In the morning, I know everyone has two things: an empty stomach and a fresh brain.

We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.

There is something to be said for waking up every morning and seeing the sun.

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.

If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. You are as if born again, in the sense of the snake: You leave your skin behind and you begin again. For most people in the world, that is totally impossible.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Life begins each morning.