I know, the sun is bright and quite horrible in the morning. But you don’t have to be all vampiric with your curtains drawn tight. In fact, you should throw those babies open and let the sun in to help yourself wake up. “[The sun] also increases the brain’s level of serotonin, a chemical that boosts mood,” said health writer Michele Bender on Prevention. Win and win.
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“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
~ Winston Churchill
“It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.”
~ Sinclair Lewis
Answer: False
Coffee is high in antioxidants, and studies have linked coffee intake to longevity and a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, and numerous other illnesses (16Trusted Source, 17Trusted Source, 18Trusted Source, 19, 20, 21Trusted Source).
Getting Set
Grantland Rice
WHEN morning brings the end of sleep
I say, “This is my toughest day
I’ll find the shadows dark and deep,
With raw Fate on the right of way
So when Misfortune stops and hails
I do not meet him with a curse ;
I’m propped against the roughest gales,
Since I had figured something worse,
I underwrite the loudest crash
That may befall the erring soul,
And if by chance things go to smash,
I’ve been in training for the role.
But if my path escapes the muck
And I come on a kinder fate,
Or get an even break in luck
I say, “What, ho i But this is great !”
It’s all in how the mind is set,
And so it’s well enough to know
Most days are rainy, dark and wet
Or wind-swept, with a hint of snow;
And if by chance the sun breaks through
To dance among the fading vines
From just one narrow slit of blue,
It’s all the brighter when it shines.
What I ask determines what I’ll find.
If I change my question, I’ll change the outcome.
Ballard of the Brave
Grantland Rice
WE have loved but we have lost
We have fought but we have failed;
We have paid the bitter cost,
Yet our hearts have never quailed ;
We have fallen in the fray
Through the sweep of countless suns,
Yet we’ve risen and today
We are standing to the guns !
We have dreamed throughout the night
Not of glory without end,
But the whirlwind of the fight
Which the coming day would send ;
We were tempted and we fell
To the bitter depths and then
From the very maw of hell
We have struggled back again.
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.”
~ Thomas A. Edison
