This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that each new day brings opportunities and hope rather than finality or despair.
William Styron's quote reflects on the notion that every day, especially mornings, represents a fresh start and a chance to embrace life with optimism. It implies that rather than viewing our circumstances as the end of something or a 'judgment day', we should recognize the beauty and potential that each new day holds.
In practice
Use this quote to inspire a group at a morning meeting about the potential of the day ahead.
The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.
my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.
The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.
In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.
For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.
The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of wood - and that the end results will be no different than if people had voluntarily chosen the same action
It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week vacation--all expenses paid--wherever he wanted to go. Any place in the world: Mongolia, Easter Island, the Turkish Riviera . . . but his choice was Salt Lake City, and that's where he went. Is this man a registered voter? Has he come to grips with the issues? Has he bathed in the blood of the lamb?
The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.
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