“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius

This article is about a few mistakes I’ve made.

About a few destructive habits that can make life quite messy and unhappy.

And it’s about what you can do instead to replace those mistakes and habits with something better.

This article is all about uncovering simplicity if you find yourself having overcomplicated your life.

1. Stop overthinking things.

Few habits and mistakes are as common as getting stuck in overthinking.

I used to do it all the time.

And it led to a lot of analysis paralysis, to little action being taken on what I deep down wanted and to so much time and energy wasted.

What to do instead:

Set short deadlines.

When you have all the time in the world to consider something then that can often wind up in you spending a lot of time thinking about the situation at hand from every conceivable angle.

I have found that learning to set short deadlines is really helpful for this, although it take a bit to practice.

So for small decisions like if should go and do the dishes or go and work out I usually give myself 30 seconds or less to make a decision.

For somewhat larger decisions that in the past would have taken me days or weeks to think through I set a deadline for 30 minutes or for the end of the workday.

Say stop in a situation where you know you can’t think straight.

I know that I’m more vulnerable to negative thinking and overthinking things when I’m hungry or when I’m close to my bedtime.

And so I have learned to stay away from thinking about anything important during that time.

And if such thoughts with a negative twist still pop up then I tell myself: No, no, we’re not going to think about this now.

Because I know that I will be back to thinking clearly and optimistically again if I just get some food or sleep.

I highly recommend finding your own situation(s) when you are more vulnerable to overthinking or pessimism. And to catch yourself and redirect your thoughts at such times.

2. Stop making your daily work busier and more complicated than it needs to be.

It’s very easy to get stuck in the same old rut at work or in school. To spend your hours there like you usually do and like most of the other people do too.

With a lot of time spent on busy work, procrastination and on being stressed on weekends or just before a deadline.

What to do instead:

Breathe and find what truly matters in the long run.

First, sit down and take a couple of deep breaths to relax and to focus your mind.

Then ask yourself: what is the most important thing I can do today?

Think about what would matter most in the long run when you ask yourself this question. Find just that one task.

Get started with that one task.

If you have trouble taking action and are slipping into procrastination then go smaller.

Tell yourself: I will work on this task for just 2 minutes.

Make getting started so easy on yourself that there is very little or no inner resistance in your mind.

Because if you just get started then it’s in my experience pretty easy to keep going for a while longer and to make a real dent in the task or even completing it.

3. Stop overcomplicating your relationships.

The fun, excitement and joy in a relationship of any kind can often be greatly reduced by simple and common thought mistakes.

Two such mistakes I’ve made too often in the past are to try to read minds and to go full in with creating drama.

What to do instead:

Ask.

Trying to mindread usually winds up in creating nightmare scenarios in your own mind.

Because reading minds is pretty much impossible and so it is very easy to project your own worst fears onto what this person might be thinking.

So instead start cultivating a habit of being a bit more direct. Cultivate a habit of asking and more clearly communicating to better understand each other.

Question your own drama.

There can be a sort of temporary pleasure or excitement in creating drama and making something bigger or more negative than it is.

In the short run and even more so in the long run it tends to be quite destructive though.

So start questioning your own drama.

Ask yourself:  

Will this matter in 5 years? Or even in 5 weeks?

Ask it before you start creating and spreading drama to the people in your life.

Sure, the issue at hand may still have to be addressed but simplify it to what it truly is before you do that to avoid unnecessary conflicts, anger and hurt feelings.

And don’t forget to question other people’s drama too by asking yourself the same question.

Just because they want to create drama doesn’t mean that you have to get drawn into it.

Father’s Day is coming up soon (or it may even be today, depending on when you read this).

It’s a time to pause life for a bit and let the dads and father figures in our lives know just how much they mean to us.

And to help you to show you love and appreciation I’d like to share 110 of the best, funniest and most inspirational Father’s Day quotes and wishes.

Use one or a few of your favorites in a card, on social media like Instagram or in real life to express how you truly feel and to make this a memorable day for the dads in your life.

The Best Happy Father’s Day Quotes to Show Your Love

“If there is any immortality to be had among us human beings, it is certainly only in the love that we leave behind. Fathers like mine don’t ever die.”
– Leo Buscaglia

“A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely.”
– Emile Gaboriau

“There is no teacher equal to mother and there’s nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.”
– Amit Ray

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
– George Herbert

“The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.”
– Antoine François Prévost

“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song.”
– Pam Brown

“Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.”
– Anne Geddes

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me.”
– Jim Valvano

“It is not flesh and blood, but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
– Friedrich Schiller

“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.”
– Lydia Maria Child

“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.”
– Nelson Mandela

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
– William Shakespeare

“Of all the titles I’ve been privileged to have, ‘Dad’ has always been the best.”
– Ken Norton

“The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They’re not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion – to care about people and about your children.”
– Denzel Washington

“I realized being a father is the greatest job I have ever had and the greatest job I will ever have.”
– Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

“A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.”
– Ama H. Vanniarachchy

“Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.”
– Victor Hugo

“Success, and even life itself, wouldn’t be worth anything if I didn’t have my children by my side. They mean everything to me.”
– Jude Law

“It’s an ongoing joy being a dad.”
– Liam Neeson

“It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.”
– Barack Obama

“I’ve jumped out of helicopters and done some daring stunts and played baseball in a professional stadium, but none of it means anything compared to being somebody’s daddy.”
– Chris Pratt

“To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.”
– Euripides

“A girl’s father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.”
– David Jeremiah

“The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.”
– John Green

“Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.”
– Frank Abagnale

“No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word – father.”
– Lydia Maria Child

“I love my father as the stars – he’s a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.”
– Terri Guillemets

The Best Happy Father’s Day Quotes from a Daughter or Wife

“It was my father who taught me to value myself.”
– Dawn French

“She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father.”
– Harper Lee

“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.”
– Gloria Naylor

“A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.”
– Gregory E. Lang

“Being a daddy’s girl is like having permanent armor for the rest of your life.”
– Marinela Reka

“I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.”
– Hedy Lamarr

“To her, the name of father was another name for love.”
– Fanny Fern

“My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.”
– Liza Minnelli

“My father has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.”
– Chelsea Clinton

“Confident women are raised by loving dads.”
– Nitya Prakash

“The greatest thing a father can do for his children is love their mother.”
– Anjaneth Garcia Untalan

“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”
– Ruth E. Renkel

“My father taught me to work hard, laugh often, and keep my word.”
– Michelle Obama

“There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.”
– Alison Lohman

“A girl’s first true love is her father.”
– Marisol Santiago

“The only thing better than having you for a husband is our children having you for a daddy.”
– Unknown

“When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.”
– Linda Poindexter

The Funniest Happy Father’s Day Quotes and Messages

“Remember: What dad really wants is a nap. Really.”
– Dave Barry

“I gave my father $100 and said, ‘Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.’ So he went out and bought a present for my mother.”
– Rita Rudner

“My 4-year-old son gave me a handmade card for Father’s Day. Maybe for Christmas I’ll draw him a picture of some toys.”
– Jim Gaffigan

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant, I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
– Mark Twain

“Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.”
– Martin Mull

“Never underestimate kids’ tenacity. Raising a child is like wrestling a small but relentless opponent.”
– Stephen Colbert

“There should be a children’s song: ‘If you’re happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep.'”
– Jim Gaffigan

“Being a dad isn’t just about eating a huge bag of gummy bears as your wife gives birth. It means being comfortable with the word hero.”
– Ryan Reynolds

“Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.”
– Jon Stewart

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.”
– Charles Wadsworth

“Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.”
– Reed Markham

“Having children is like living in a frat house. Nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.”
– Ray Romano

“Having a two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.”
– Jerry Seinfeld

“Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream.”
– Conan O’Brien

“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.”
– Steve Martin

“My daughter got me a ‘World’s Best Dad’ mug. So we know she’s sarcastic.”
– Bob Odenkirk

“When you’re young, you think your dad is Superman. Then you grow up, and you realize he’s just a regular guy who wears a cape.”
– Dave Attell

“My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.”
– Spike Milligan

“I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, ‘My dad can beat up your dad.’ I’d say, ‘Yeah? When?'”
– Bill Hicks

“Even though I’m proud my dad invented the rearview mirror, we’re not as close as we appear.”
– Stewart Francis

“Father’s Day is important because, besides being the day on which we honor Dad, it’s the one day of the year that Brookstone does any business.”
– Jimmy Fallon

“Me and my dad used to play tag. He’d drive.”
– Rodney Dangerfield

“I learn things from my kids constantly. Most of their knowledge comes from Snapple caps.”
– Jimmy Kimmel

“We wondered why when a child laughed, he belonged to Daddy, and when he had a sagging diaper that smelled like a landfill, ‘He wants his mother.'”
– Erma Bombeck

“When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, ‘Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?’ He answered, ‘If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.'”
– Jerry Lewis

“The best fathers have the softest, sweetest hearts. In other words, great dads are real marshmallows.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

The Best Short Happy Father’s Day Sayings

“A father’s smile has been known to light up a child’s entire day.”
– Susan Gale

“The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.”
– Tim Russert

“A father doesn’t tell you that he loves you. He shows you.”
– Dimitri the Stoneheart

“My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.”
– Clarence Budington Kelland

“The imprint of a father remains forever on the life of the child.”
– Roy Lessin

“The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.”
– Dan Pearce

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.”
– Sigmund Freud

“My dad’s my best mate, and he always will be.”
– Cher Lloyd

“No one in this world can love a girl more than her father.”
– Michael Ratnadeepak

“The greatest measure of a father is in the end not in what he provides, but in how present he is when it truly matters.”
– Unknown

“Daddies don’t just love their children every now and then, it’s a love without end.”
– George Strait

“It’s the most profound gift and the most daunting challenge at times.”
– Matt Bomer

“Life doesn’t come with an instruction book – that’s why we have fathers.”
– H. Jackson Browne

“The power of a dad in a child’s life is unmatched.”
– Justin Ricklefs

“Good fathers do three things: they provide, they nurture, and they guide.”
– Roland Warren

“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.”
– Frank A. Clark

“A father’s love is forever imprinted on his child’s heart.”
– Jennifer Williamson

“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
– Anne Sexton

The Most Inspirational Fathers Day Wishes and Quotes

“My father used to say that it’s never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, ‘You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'”
– Michael Jordan

“I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father’s life.”
– Sidney Poitier

“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.”
– Mario Cuomo

“It’s only when you grow up and step back from him – or leave him for your own home – it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it.”
– Margaret Truman

“My father didn’t do anything unusual. He only did what dads are supposed to do – be there.”
– Max Lucado

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us.”
– Umberto Eco

“An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Until you have a son of your own, you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.”
– Kent Nerburn

“Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.”
– Charles F. Kettering

“When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.”
– The Talmud

“Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life.”
– Hugh Jackman

“The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams, and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.”
– Reed Markham

“Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.”
– Brad Pitt

“There is nothing that moves a loving father’s soul quite like his child’s cry.”
– Joni Eareckson Tada

“I feel that the greatest gift that I can give my children is the freedom to be who they are.”
– Will Smith

“Make sure you listen to your kids. Don’t just hear them. But listen to them. It’s very hard to do, but it’s so worthwhile.”
– Kwame Alexander

“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.”
– Billy Graham

“Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.”
– Frank Pittman

“No love is greater than that of a father for his son.”
– Dan Brown

“A good father makes childhood feel like a safe harbor and adulthood like an open sea full of possibilities that you can make into reality.”
– Jim Harper

“I’m happy to have grown up and become a dad in an era where the job description of father has been expanded so successfully. I just think that it gives us more agency in the raising of our children, and that’s a good thing.”
– LeVar Burton

Want more inspirational words for your celebration? Then have a look at these positive and love-filled Father’s Day quotes, the funny Father’s Day sayings here, the Father’s Day in Heaven messages and quotes in this post and also this one with short but powerful Father’s Day quotes.

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
Buddha

There is only one time and place where you can be and have any control over.

The present moment.

But most of us still spend a lot of our regular days lost in memories, reliving a sunny vacation or maybe more commonly repeating an old conflict or negative situation over and over in our thoughts.

Or we get lost in scenarios about what could happen in the future. Maybe through wishful daydreams.

Or maybe by building monsters in our minds as thoughts go round and and round and create scary and dangerous mountains out of molehills or just air.

Or your thoughts may become split and unfocused between several different things and tasks.

If you spend a lot of your everyday moments and time in the future or the past or you have difficulty focusing and you feel this may have a negative effect on your life then maybe you want to learn to live more in the present moment.

Here’s what works for me to do that. Just a few simple things that I use in my normal day.

1. Single-task not only your work.

I and many others have often written and talked about the importance of single-tasking your work to get it done more effectively.

I have found that it becomes easier for me to stay present for more time throughout my day if I single-task everything as best I can.

That means to not use tabs when I browse the internet but to just be fully engaged with one thing online at a time. It means to not use my smartphone or my computer as I also try to watch the TV.

Or to use any of those internet-devices during a conversation.

Get a good start to your day and set the tone for it by doing one thing at a time as soon as you wake up.

If you have to multitask, then try to set off some specific time for it during your day. Maybe an hour or so in the afternoon.

2. Do it slowly.

When you wake up and starting doing your first thing of the day, then slow it down a bit.

Do it and the next few things at a relaxed and calm pace. It will probably not take that much longer than if you do it quickly.

And you’ll be able to stay present more easily, to focus on each thing you do and to find a simple joy or stillness in it.

Do that instead of increasing your stress right away and getting stuck in worries or though loops about what may happen today before you even have had your breakfast.

And as you move through your day, try to do it slowly when you can.

3. Tell yourself: now I am…

As I do something I simply tell myself this in my mind: Now I am X.

For example, if I am brushing my teeth, then I tell myself: Now I am brushing my teeth.

This habit is maybe most important when doing things where it is easy to drift away to the future or past. It could be when you brush your hair or teeth or when you are taking a walk to the supermarket.

I don’t tell myself this line all the time, but I pepper it in a couple of times throughout my day.

4. Minimize what you let into your head early in the day.

If I check the email, Facebook and other websites online early in the day then I have found that I will have more thoughts bouncing around in my head.

And so it becomes a lot harder to concentrate on anything, to stay present and to not be dragged away into some negative thought loop.

So the kind option towards myself has become to not check anything early in the day. And to check things as few times as I can.

If I minimize such things then my day becomes lighter and simpler and I not only stay present more easily but I also tend to get more things of importance done.

5. No, no, no + reconnect with the here and now.

The four tips above make it easier to stay in the present moment and to use it and enjoy it fully.

But each day I still drift into the past or the future. Or my thoughts become split between different things.

If you have read any of my stuff on self-esteem then you know that I often use a stop-word or phrase to quickly disrupt and stop the inner critic or a damaging train of thought. I do the same thing here.

As quickly as I notice that my thoughts have drifted away I say to myself: No, no, no.

Then I quickly follow that up with focusing on just my breathing or just on what is happening around me right now with all my senses for a minute or two to draw myself back into this present moment.

Especially if you’re a kid. No school and endless warm days for adventures that make fond memories.

And in today’s post I’d like to help the children in your life – or you yourself, if you’re a child or teenager – to have the best summer yet by sharing the most positive, funny and inspirational summer quotes for kids.

I hope you’ll find something here to make this a happy, fun and wonderful summer season.

Summer Quotes for Kids to Make It a Happy Season

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”
– Jenny Han

“Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.”
– Zooey Deschanel

“I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.”
– Jack McBrayer

“Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
– Hans Christian Andersen

“Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.”
– Brian Wilson

“Summer is singing with joy, and the beaches are inviting you with dancing waves.”
– Debasish Mridha

“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”
– Kellie Elmore

“When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.”
– Wilma Rudolph

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.”
– Helen Keller

“Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.”
– Van Morrison

“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”
– Celia Thaxter

“Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering.”
– Lailah Gifty Akita

“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
– Maud Hart Lovelace

“I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.”
– Susan Branch

“I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”
– Langston Hughes

“Rejoice as summer should… chase away sorrows by living.”
– Melissa Marr

“She smelled of sun and daisies with a hint of river water.”
– Katie Daisy

“When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.”
– Taylor Swift

“Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.”
– Bob Marley

Funny Summer Quotes for Kids (and Some for Parents Too)

“You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It’s like a sauce!”
– Chris Pratt

“During summer vacation, you get to do all your favorite things; cook hot dogs over a campfire (while being eaten alive by mosquitoes).”
– Bruce Lansky

“Summer is finally here! School is out and I am kicking back my heels and watching the clouds go by.”
– Yvonne Martinez Ward

“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.”
– James Dent

“It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.”
– Anne Fadiman

“Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.”
– Erma Bombeck

“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.”
– Walter Winchell

“Good weather all week, but come the weekend, and the weather stinks. When the weather is too hot, they complain; too cold, they complain; and when it’s just right, they’re watching TV.”
– Rita Rudner

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
– Russell Baker

“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.”
– Raymond Duncan

“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”
– Mark Twain

“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”
– Jane Austen

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
– Steve Martin

“The average vacation is one-tenth playing – nine-tenths paying.”
– Arnold Glasow

“Vacation is that time when you wish you had something to do while doing nothing.”
– Frank Tyger

Short Summer Quotes for Kids

“In summer, the song sings itself.”
– William Carlos Williams

“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.”
– Regina Brett

“Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.”
– Kellie Elmore

“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“We know summer is the height of being alive.”
– Gary Shteyngart

“I live for summer.”
– Sandra Boynton

“A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.”
– John Mayer

“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
– Sam Keen

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
– Charles Bowden

“If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.”
– Katie Lee

“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
– Wallace Stevens

“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
– Jeannette Walls

“Sunshine and happiness go together like fish and chips!”
– Catherine Pulsifer

“It’s summer and time for wandering…”
– Kellie Elmore

“A kid with an ice cream that is starting to run and a sunny afternoon has everything they need to conquer the world.”
– Sandra Shea

“Every summer sunset is filled with such promise of even more glorious adventures tomorrow.”
– Jim Harper

“But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.”
– The Beatles

“It’s always summer somewhere.”
– Lilly Pulitzer

“In summer time to simply be.”
– Paul Laurence Dunbar

“Make use of the sun while it shines.”
– Danish Proverb

“Summer is a verb.”
– Lisa Birnbach

“If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.”
– A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
– Henry David Thoreau

Wonderful End of Summer Quotes for Kids

“The end-of-summer winds make people restless.”
– Sebastian Faulks

“Our one wish is that the summer never ends!”
– Paul Dini

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss

“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever.”
– E.B. White

“Summer has always been good to me, even the bittersweet end, with the slanted yellow light.”
– Paul Monette

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
– William Shakespeare

“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.”
– Evelyn Waugh

“Here is the ghost of summer that lived for us. Here is a promise of summer to be.”
– William E. Henley

“Summer ends, and autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.”
– Hal Borland

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
– John Steinbeck

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus

“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”
– Anton Chekhov

“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream, glides away.”
– Sarah Helen Whitman

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
– Sylvia Plath

“Summer will end soon and we will carry these memories into fall for joy and warmth.”
– Unknown

“…And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”
– Oscar Wilde

“September tries its best to have us forget summer.”
– Bern Williams

“With all these lovely tokens of September days are here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.”
– Helen Hunt Jackson

“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.”
– Terri Guillemets

“On the shore of nature’s magic, I dreamed summer knew no end.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby

Want more inspiration for your summer? Then check out these funny summer quotes, the uplifting June quotes here and also this one with lots of short and beautiful summer quotes and sayings.

We all feel stupid from time to time.

I’ve certainly done it plenty of times.

But I’ve also learned what to do when you feel stupid to improve upon that situation. So those negative thoughts and feelings don’t start taking over your whole life and outlook.

And in today’s post I want to share my best insights and tips from past 15 years or so.

Here are 12 reasons why you may feel or think you’re stupid and what to do about that to improve the situation you’re in, your opinion about yourself and your life.

1. Feeling stressed.

I’ve often found that in certain situations where I’ve been feeling like I just don’t get it or I’ve felt stupid then that’s not about me actually being dumb.

I’ve just been stressed and so my ability to think clearly doesn’t work well at all.

What to do about it:

The simplest and quickest way to calm and slow down if you’re stressed is in my experience to just focus on your breathing.

Sit down if possible. Close your eyes. Breathe a little deeper than usual and breathe through your nose. For 2 minutes just focus on your breathing.

Nothing else. Just on those breaths going in and out of your body.

I usually find that it’s a lot easier to think clearly, to focus and to understand things after I’ve done that.

If you’re in a situation where you can’t take 2 minutes for that then take 3 deep breaths in and out through your nose. That can bring a bit of clarity and calm to your mind and body.

2. Letting your inner critic walk all over you.

We all have an inner critic.

A voice inside that can harshly criticize you when you have made a mistake. Or throw negative thoughts at you about what may happen if you say the wrong thing or mess up in, for instance, a meeting.

This negative self-talk can really drag you down. But it doesn’t have to.

What to do about it:

As soon as your inner critic pipes up, shut it down by saying a stop word or stop phrase.

In your mind, firmly say: No!

Or “Nope! Nope! Nope!”. Or one of my favorites: No, we are not going down that road again!

Don’t let your inner critic derail your thoughts into negativity. Shut it down as quickly as you can instead.

3. Not having a realistic roadmap to where you want to go.

It’s easy to become frustrated, impatient and to sometimes feel stupid if your roadmap to where you want to go isn’t realistic.

Thinking that things will be easy, with no setbacks or hiccups and that you will reach your goal quickly and then not have reality match those expectations is one of the most common reasons why people give up too soon and too easily.

What to do about it:

Talk to people who have gone where you want to go.

They can give you a more accurate roadmap and tell you what to expect in the real world.

Get information from people out there in the world.

If you don’t know someone who has gone where you want to go then listen to people further away. Read their books or websites. Listen to their podcasts or watch their Youtube channel.

And keep doing it to keep yourself grounded to realistic expectations and to not give up when you encounter obstacles.

Don’t compare yourself to others.

We all have things we learn a bit more quickly and other things that we may learn slower. That’s OK and normal.

So don’t compare yourself and your progress to the ones of friends or people you admire.

The important thing is to give yourself time to learn instead of giving up because then you make no progress at all. Going slowly forward is always better than standing still.

4. Fear of asking a dumb question.

We’ve all been there.

You want to ask something but you’re hesitant. The question feels stupid. And you don’t want to look or feel stupid. So you remain silent.

But the fear of being judged for asking questions can be an obstacle to learning or truly understanding something. And so, overcoming that can be a great help.

What to do about it:

Remember: People like curiosity.

Most people who teach like curiosity and questions. And they like people who clarify so they don’t make mistakes and people who want to get a deeper understanding of things.

So ask the question from the frame of mind that you want to clarify something or deepen your understanding of the topic.

Do that to both be able to ask more helpful questions and make it more clear to the one you’re asking that you’re doing it out of curiosity and an interest in learning more.

You don’t have to be perfect.

Many questions you ask will be good or even great. A few may not be. That’s OK. It’s just a part of anything you do in life.

No point in holding yourself to impossible or perfect standards. That will just hold you back.

People aren’t as judgmental as your inner critic may imagine.

And if people are judgmental in their response then that’s usually a lot more about them having a bad day, week or year than about you asking a simple question.

Normalize it to yourself.

Like with all things in life, the more you do it the less it will feel weird or uncomfortable. So ask more questions in all kinds of settings in your life to normalize this to yourself.

5. Imposter syndrome or self-doubt sweep in.

Self-doubt is of course something that will pop up from time to time.

It can come in the form of doubting that you can actually get something done but also in the form of doubting that you deserve the success you’ve had in life.

That latter is often called imposter syndrome and can lead to a fear of getting caught and being exposed as a “fraud” that does not belong in this workplace or at that school.

What to do about it:

If you are plagued by self-doubt about being able to accomplish something then talking back to your inner critic as described earlier in this post is certainly helpful.

I’ve also found it helpful to vent or discuss my doubts with someone close to me who can ground me and not let my thoughts spin into a big snowball to also be very helpful.

If you on the other hand tend to more often fall into feeling like an imposter then it can be helpful to write down your small and bigger wins on a list that you can review whenever you start to doubt yourself.

To not see yourself through a distorted lens, as described further down in this post, can also help you find a more accurate and deserving image of yourself.

You can learn more about overcoming self-doubt in this post and also what to do if you don’t feel good enough about yourself in this post.

6. An unhelpful view on mistakes and setbacks.

When you make a mistake or have a setback then that can sting.

You may feel bad about yourself even feel ashamed. And so your inner critic might start talking about you being one of those stupid people who always make stupid choices (so shut down that inner voice quickly).

What to do about it:

Be your own best friend.

This is my favorite way to handle a mistake or failure.

Instead of beating myself up or being dragged down into negativity and inaction, I ask myself:

How would my friend/parent support me and help me in this situation?

Then I talk to myself like he or she would and do things that this person close to me would recommend me to do.

Ask better questions.

If you keep asking yourself questions like “how could I be so dumb?”, then you’re not gonna feel good about yourself.

I’ve found that it is more helpful for me and my personal growth to focus on asking myself questions like:

What is one thing I can learn from this situation? And what is one opportunity – no matter if it’s a small one – that I can find in this situation?

Remember: It’s normal.

Finally, remind yourself that everyone that go outside of their comfort zone makes mistakes. That and having setbacks are natural parts of the learning process and of becoming better at something.

7. Being overly strict and serious with yourself.

If you’re a bit too serious with yourself and give yourself little room to breathe, to relax and to sometimes make a mistake then that strictness can become something that holds you back.

Because it leads you into becoming your own worst critic all too often and to someone who holds yourself to perfect and impossible standards.

What to do about it:

Set human standards for yourself (you’ll do and feel better). And set them for everyone else in your life too. We all have strengths and flaws. And sometimes things just don’t go as planned.

That’s just life.

I know, being strict with yourself and expecting perfect results may look like a good idea to achieve what you want out of life.

But in my experience it tends to create anxiety, procrastination and it makes me perform worse because I’ve put too much pressure on myself.

So relax a bit. It will be easier to think. To take action. And you’ll feel better about yourself and your life.

8. Seeing yourself through a distorted and negative lens.

You’re not bad at everything. Or a failure. Or a stupid person.

But when you’re in a situation where you’re feeling dumb then it’s not always easy to remember that.

So here’s what I like to do to find a more accurate picture of myself.

What to do about it:

Find the exception to open up your mind.

When you, for example, feel like a failure in school or like your dating life sucks then ask yourself:

What’s one small exception to that though?

This can help you see that you’re actually doing pretty well in your geography class. Or that you had some nice dates with that one person a few months ago.

Let that small exception open your mind up to a more optimistic view of yourself. And let that help you find more positive things about yourself and your life.

Then make a list of those positive things and strengths you find. Keep it close if your mind starts seeing you through a negative lens again.

Remind yourself that all people have strengths and weaknesses in life.

Many intelligent people have struggled with one or more areas in their life. It’s totally normal.

9. Negative daily or weekly influences.

Sometimes we are our own biggest critic. At other times the criticism and negativity can come from other people like family members, friends and co-workers.

If you’re surrounded by or influenced by people each week that make you feel stupid or like a failure then that isn’t helpful.

What to do about it:

Realize that they most often do it to feel better about themselves.

Sure, we all sometimes make mistakes that people will be angry about. But if someone criticizes or puts you down again and again then it’s likely about them and not you.

Redesign your daily and weekly life.

Simply list the people who are the strongest negative influences in your life. And then the most positive influences.

Then, find a way this week and month to spend less time with those negative sources and use the time you’ve freed up on the most positive people or other sources – books, podcasts etc. – in your life.

You may also find this post about not taking things so personally helpful.

10. A lack of structure in daily life.

I’ve found that being disorganized and working without much structure definitely increases stress and decreases clarity of mind and movement forward with my work.

What to do about it:

Just a simple thing like a small paper pad where you write down your daily to-do list can make a big difference and also frees up your mind for thinking rather than trying to remember things you need to get done.

I use a to-do list online and then I write down my most important task to get done on that day on a small paper note pad.

When that important task is done then I add another important task from the to-do list online to my piece of paper. This keep me focused on just one thing at a time.

I also like using checklists for bigger projects so I don’t forget things and easily missable smaller details (especially during the end stage of the project when I’m a bit more tired and forgetful).

You don’t have to be super organized and use a ton of apps. A simple setup like this has helped me a lot to get things done and to make far fewer mistakes (or totally forget about things) compared to 15 years ago.

11. Low self-esteem.

If you often feel bad about yourself in general then that can partly be from low self-esteem.

That was certainly the case for me in the past.

When my level of self-esteem was lower I beat myself up more often, I was more vulnerable to the criticism or attacks of others and so I was feeling stupid and tended to see myself through a negative lens in plenty of situations.

What to do about it:

Well, many of the tips in this post such as being your own best friend when you have a setback and learning how to talk back to your inner critic will over time help you improve your self-esteem.

You may also want to check my course on self-esteem to get a more structured approach to building a solid sense of self-respect and self-love.

12. You haven’t got the proper help you need yet.

Sometimes we simply need help from others.

I know that plenty of people who have felt stupid or been called stupid by others have later in life been diagnosed with for example dyslexia or ADHD.

The good thing about life today is that we know a lot more about these things than we used to and so specialized help tends to be more easily accessible.

What to do about it:

Contact local help where you live such as a mental health professional or a specialist at school or at work that you can get personalized help from.

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Morning is here.

Hopefully waking you up gently with some sunlight. But realistically, on some days at least, with rain smattering on your bedroom window.

Either way, how we start our morning tends to set the tone for the rest of the day.

So in today’s post I want to help you and the people you care about to have a great start by sharing 130 of the most positive, romantic and inspirational good morning wishes and messages.

Use them in a text to a loved one, a group chat with family or friends, on social media like Instagram or simply read through some of them yourself to start your day with some positive energy.

Good Morning Wishes and Messages for Friends

Honestly, I can’t count how many mornings you’ve brightened just by being part of my life. So here’s me today returning that favor – good morning, and I hope today is a successful and happy one for you!

Mornings are plain and simply a lot easier to face when you’ve got a friend like you in your life. Thank you for all the laughs, the advice that works if I actually follow it and the honest talks. Good morning, my friend and have a good one!

I’m so proud of the person you’ve become, and I can’t wait to see where this next chapter takes you. Good morning, my lovely friend!

Good morning! Hope you’ll have a day filled with positive energy, a few good laughs and that satisfying feeling at the end of it that you gave it your best.

You’re the kind of friend everyone wishes they had. I’m so grateful you’re in my corner. Thank you and have a good morning!

Wishing you a morning filled with that calm, easy energy that makes you feel like everything is going to work out – because it will. Good morning, my friend!

Good morning to someone who never fails to make even the most ordinary day feel a little more fun and exciting (even when the rains pours down). I hope today gives you plenty of reasons to smile.

Good morning! The best days are the ones that start with knowing someone out there is rooting for you. Consider this your daily reminder that I am, every morning.

Good morning! Life has a way of throwing annoying or terrifying curveballs, but you always seem to handle them with more grace and humor than most. I admire that about you.

Some friends are just easy to be around – no drama, just happy energy and honest and funny conversations. That’s you. Good morning, and thanks for being exactly who you are.

Good morning! You’ve been there for me through some of the best and worst moments of my life, and I don’t take that for granted. I just wanted to say that.

I don’t say it nearly enough, but having you as a friend has made my life so much better. Good morning – now go out there and have an incredible day!

Good morning! Whatever today throws at you, just know that you’ve already handled tougher days and survived it. You’ve got this!

Good morning and I hope today brings you something unexpected and wonderful – you deserve every bit of it.

Good morning, my old friend! May your coffee be strong, your schedule be light and your day have a couple or more of those little moments that bring you happiness and fun.

Brand new morning, and a brand new opportunity to create a great day. Good morning!

Good morning! Here’s to another positive and successful day, my friend!

Good morning, looking forward to seeing you soon again and having an even more fun weekend than the last time!

Good morning, my dear friend! I hope today feels as bright and wonderful as you make everyone around you feel.

Good morning to the person who always knows exactly what to say when I need to hear it (even if I may not want to listen at first).

Good morning! I hope today is your kind of perfect day.

Every morning is a little better knowing I have you to share life’s ups and downs with. Wishing you a truly wonderful day ahead, my friend.

Good Morning Wishes for Him or Her (Romantic Messages)

Good morning, my love! I used to think mornings were just something rough to get through, but then you came along and made them something lovely to look forward to.

Good morning, my love! Thank you for being patient with me (for a really long time sometimes), for laughing at my often bad jokes and for making this life we’ve built together feel like the best adventure a person could wish for.

Good morning, darling! If mornings were a meal, you’d be the best part of it – that first sip of strong and tasty coffee.

You are the reason I go to bed smiling. And the reason I wake up excited for what’s coming next. Today and every day for the rest of my life.

Good morning! You are my calm in life’s chaos, my warmth in the cold and of course, my favorite notification on any morning. I love you.

You’re the first person I think about when I open my eyes and I’m so happy to have you in my life. Have a good morning!

Good morning, my sunshine! I don’t know what I did to deserve someone like you, but I’m humbly grateful for it each day.

Waking up next to you is my favorite part of any day. And on the mornings when you’re not here, well, a text like this at least helps a little bit.

Good morning to the person who somehow makes even a boring and rainy Monday feel like something worth showing up for. You certainly make my life sunnier and more exciting.

I know you’re probably still half-asleep reading this, but I wanted you to start your day knowing that you are loved – deeply, completely and for the rest of my days.

Good morning, my love! If I could, I’d bring you coffee in bed every single morning for the rest of our lives. But on days like today, this message will have to carry a bit of that same warmth and love.

No matter how many mornings we share, I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of seeing you wake up and light up the start of any day with your positive energy.

Good morning! You have this way of making me feel safe, loved and beautiful no matter how I may feel or look in the morning. I’m so lucky you’re mine.

They say home is a place, but for me it’s a person – and that person is you. I hope today treats you as wonderfully as you treat me.

Good morning, sweetheart! Just a reminder that no matter how busy or crazy today gets, I’ll always be the one in your corner. Reach out if you need me.

I woke up today and started thinking about all the little things you do that I love about you. Turns out there are way too many to fit in one text. So I’ll just tell them to you tonight.

Good morning to my favorite person in this world. You make my every single day brighter, and I wouldn’t trade what we have for anything. Remember that.

The best part of falling in love with you is that it keeps happening again and again. Every morning. I hope it never ends.

Good morning, my ray of sunshine! I miss you and can’t wait to see you soon again!

I hope your morning is as peaceful and lovely as you make mine on those mornings when I get to wake up next to you. Have a good morning and a successful day!

Some people search their whole lives for what we have. So I never want to take this for granted. Good morning, my love – let’s make today and every coming day a beautiful one.

I love you every day, but there’s something a little extra special about saying it first thing as we wake in the morning that makes it feel even more true. Good morning, my everything. I love you.

Funny Good Morning Wishes and Messages

I personally think mornings should be optional, but since the world disagrees, here we are. Hope you’ll have a good one!

Good morning – may your coffee be strong and your email inbox wonderfully empty.

Good morning! I was going to send you an inspiring quote about rising with the sun, but I know both you and I tend to hit snooze as many times as possible before getting up.

Good morning! I hope your day is wonderful and productive. But if it’s not, I hope at least the snacks are good and meetings are brief.

The fact that you and I are both awake before noon is genuinely impressive, and I think that should be celebrated. Go us!

Good morning! May your day be as smooth as your snooze-button technique and as focused as a man trying to get dressed and be out the door in 3 minutes.

Hope you’re having a good morning and let’s just be honest – we both know today’s biggest challenge will be getting out of bed. Everything after that is easy, so we might as well go after our dreams.

If there was an award for the person who battles their alarm clock the hardest every single morning, you’d probably win it every time. And I’d be a close second.

The sun is up, the birds are singing, and I am still deeply suspicious of anyone who enjoys this hour in any kind of way. Anyway, good morning!

You should be proud, my friend. Most people only dream about sleeping as deeply and as long as you do. Pretty impressive.

Good morning! Just a reminder that being a morning person isn’t a positive personality trait – it’s a red flag and cry for help. So stay strong out there and don’t let those early birds get you down.

I would say “rise and shine,” but I know you and I know that ain’t happening before the second cup of coffee. So take it slow and let’s do it our way.

I wanted to wish you a productive and inspired morning, but then I remembered who I’m texting. So let’s aim for “awake”. And we can take it from there.

Good morning! They say the early bird catches the worm. I say, just hang in there, the weekend is here soon.

Good morning, I know some people apparently greet the morning with a workout and matcha. I tend to greet it with a groan and a prolonged negotiation with my alarm.

Good morning! I hope your morning face is more “ready to take on the world” and less “confused little squirrel caught in daylight.” Mine’s latter today.

Good morning! Fun fact – your bed misses you already. I do too. But I guess you gotta do what you gotta do (or what your boss wants you to do).

I woke up bright and cheerful this morning, full of optimism and energy, ready to step out into a wonderful world. Then my alarm actually went off. And that was the end of that.

Good morning! Another beautiful day to pretend we have our lives and ourselves completely together. You’re really good at it, by the way. I aim to be as convincing as that, my friend.

They say nothing good happens before 9 a.m. and honestly, I’ve never found a single reason to argue with that. Hope you’re having a good one so far.

Good morning! If getting up early truly builds character, then I have terrible character and, yeah, I’m just going to be OK with that.

I’m growing more and more convinced that mornings were invented by someone who clearly had a grudge against the rest of us. So good morning, my fellow survivor and hope you’re having an OK start to your day.

Good morning! I thought about being one of those people who texts motivational quotes at 6 a.m., but our friendship means more to me than that. So, that’s my bit of inspirational wisdom of the day.

Short and Sweet Good Morning Messages

I’m so glad our paths crossed in this life. Wishing you a truly wonderful morning, my dear friend.

Good morning! Whether today is an easy one or a tough one, just know that I’m right here. Cheering you on. Only a call or text away.

Wishing you a morning that’s just as bright, fun and lovely as you are, my love!

You’re simply the best, and I hope today reminds you of that in both small and bigger ways. Have a wonderful morning!

May that first cup of coffee be a lovely one and the day ahead be even better.

Good morning to an absolute gem of a human being. You’re a blessing to all of us.

Today is going to be a good one – I can feel it. Let us make the most of it!

Good morning to someone who makes the world a better place just by being in it.

Wishing you the happiest of mornings with lots of laugh, some luck and the success you want in your life.

Not everyone gets a morning message, you know. And you’re first on that short list.

You’ve handled so much with such quiet strength, and I admire and respect that a whole lot. Hope you’ll have a good day.

Thinking of you this morning and hoping it’s filled with everything that makes you happy – both the small things and the big ones.

Good morning! I’m so grateful you’re part of my life and that I get to start another day knowing you’re in it makes me smile.

Wishing you a good morning and the start of a new chapter filled with love, laughter and all the peace you so richly deserve.

Sending you all my positive vibes and good energy this morning. I hope today is a beautiful one for you!

Good morning to one of the finest people I know. I’m thankful for you today and every day.

May your morning be calm, your day be kind and your heart be full of love and gratitude when you climb into bed tonight.

Good morning! I hope today has at least one of those beautiful moments that catches you off guard in the best possible way.

You may be another day older, but to me you’re still the same quirky and warm person you’ve been for all the years I’ve known you.

Another day of living this good life – wishing you a very happy morning and an even better day ahead.

Good morning to someone who truly understands what it means to be kind, loyal and caring.

The most wonderful thing about a new morning is that it gives us another chance to do something different. Something new. Something meaningful.

Famous Good Morning Wishes and Messages

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.”
– Harvey Mackay

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
– Maria Robinson

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over, so I refuse to have a bad day.”
– Paul Henderson

“Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand-new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
– Lemony Snicket

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
– Rumi

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”
– Groucho Marx

“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
– Mark Twain

“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
– Buddha

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
– Anatole France

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain

“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”
– Billy Wilder

Positive Good Morning Messages and Quotes

“This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.”
– Maya Angelou

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”
– William Arthur Ward

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days – which inevitably create a successful life.”
– Hal Elrod

“Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today.”
– Doe Zantamata

“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.”
– Yoko Ono

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
– George Horace Lorimer

“Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.”
– Alice Morse Earle

“Now that your eyes are open, make the sun jealous with your burning passion to start the day. Make the sun jealous or stay in bed.”
– Malak El Halabi

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”
– Les Brown

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
– Earl Nightingale

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
– Robert H. Schuller

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus

“The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light.”
– S. Ajna

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
– Wayne Dyer

“Every day brings new choices.”
– Martha Beck

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot

Want more inspiration for your morning? Then have a look at these inspirational good morning quotes, the short morning sayings here and also this one with funny good morning quotes.

With long and warm days in the sunshine, vacations coming up soon and fun times with family and friends.

And to help you to kick this season off in a great way I’d like to share 90 of the most positive, witty and funny June quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here to make this a happy month both for yourself and the people you care about.

Funny June Quotes and Sayings for a Happy Start to Summer

“Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.”
– Al Bernstein

“It is better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise.”
– Mark Twain

“If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.”
– Bernard Williams

“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.”
– James Dent

“A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.”
– Bill Watterson

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
– Russell Baker

“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.”
– Walter Winchell

“June is bustin’ out all over.”
– Oscar Hammerstein II

“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
– Sam Keen

“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.”
– Regina Brett

“How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness, how the time has flown. How did it get so late so soon?”
– Dr. Seuss

“It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.”
– Anne Fadiman

“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”
– Jane Austen

“When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.”
– Taylor Swift

“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”
– Mark Twain

“July is a blind date with summer.”
– Hal Borland

“June is the gateway to summer.”
– Jean Hersey

“I believe someone made a grievous mistake when summer was created; no novitiate or god in their right mind would make a season akin to hell on purpose. Someone should be fired.”
– Michelle Franklin

“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
– L.M. Montgomery

Short and Funny June Quotes

“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.”
– Raymond Duncan

“You can pour melted ice cream on regular ice cream. It’s like a sauce!”
– Chris Pratt

“June suns, you cannot store them.”
– A.E. Housman

“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June.”
– Karen Joy Fowler

“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.”
– James Russell Lowell

“In summer, the song sings itself.”
– William Carlos Williams

“And since all this loveliness cannot be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.”
– Abba Woolson

“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
– Steve Martin

“I realized June had never been just a month.”
– Sanober Khan

“A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.”
– John Mayer

“It is June. I am tired of being brave.”
– Anne Sexton

“Summertime and the livin’ is easy.”
– George Gershwin

Hilarious June Quotes That Will Make You Laugh

“Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Good weather all week, but come the weekend, and the weather stinks. When the weather is too hot, they complain; too cold, they complain; and when it’s just right, they’re watching TV.”
– Rita Rudner

“June comes in with roses in her hand, but very often, with a thick shawl on her shoulders, and a bad cold in her head.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Life’s short. Eat dessert first, work less, and vacation MORE!!”
– Lea Mishell

“Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day.”
– Nancy Gibbs

“Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.”
– Erma Bombeck

“Vacation is that time when you wish you had something to do while doing nothing.”
– Frank Tyger

“The average vacation is one-tenth playing – nine-tenths paying.”
– Arnold Glasow

“Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.”
– Nora Ephron

“What grows best in the heat: fantasy, unreason, lust.”
– Salman Rushdie

“If I don’t make it to heaven, at least I know what hell feels like with this heat!”
– April Mae Monterrosa

“It was always the view of my parents… that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.”
– Ian McEwan

“Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.”
– Brian Wilson

“If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.”
– Katie Lee

“Sunshine and happiness go together like fish and chips!”
– Catherine Pulsifer

“During summer vacation, you get to do all your favorite things; cook hot dogs over a campfire (while being eaten alive by mosquitoes).”
– Bruce Lansky

Funny and Inspirational June Quotes for Your Instagram and Letter Board

“If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.”
– Jimmy Buffett

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”
– Jenny Han

“Summer officially starts in June, which is when I officially start complaining about the heat.”
– Sandra Shea

“I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.”
– Kellie Elmore

“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
– Pablo Neruda

“At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.”
– Edgar Allan Poe

“It’s a smile, it’s a kiss, it’s a sip of wine… it’s summertime!”
– Kenny Chesney

“Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.”
– Yoko Ono

“June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.”
– Marie Lu

“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
– Jeannette Walls

“I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“June had drawn out every leaf on the trees.”
– Virginia Woolf

“But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.”
– The Beatles

“June is nature’s way of reminding you that you forgot to buy sunscreen. Just like last year.”
– Unknown

“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”
– Anton Chekhov

“When I feel the heat, I see the light.”
– Everett Dirksen

“I look my best when I’m totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach.”
– Rosamund Pike

“Make use of the sun while it shines.”
– Danish Proverb

“I love June because it’s socially acceptable to do absolutely nothing and blame it on the weather.”
– Jim Harper

Funny Father’s Day Quotes That Will Make Your Family Smile

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant, I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
– Mark Twain

“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.”
– Steve Martin

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.”
– Charles Wadsworth

“When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, ‘Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?’ He answered, ‘If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.'”
– Jerry Lewis

“Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.”
– Martin Mull

“My daughter got me a ‘World’s Best Dad’ mug. So we know she’s sarcastic.”
– Bob Odenkirk

“Having a 2-year-old is like having a blender without a lid.”
– Jerry Seinfeld

“Remember: What Dad really wants is a nap. Really.”
– Dave Barry

“Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.”
– Jon Stewart

“Having children is like living in a frat house. Nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.”
– Ray Romano

“Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks.”
– Jim Gaffigan

“Never underestimate kids’ tenacity. Raising a child is like wrestling a small but relentless opponent.”
– Stephen Colbert

“Me and my dad used to play tag. He’d drive.”
– Rodney Dangerfield

“Even though I’m proud my dad invented the rearview mirror, we’re not as close as we appear.”
– Stewart Francis

“Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.”
– Al Unser

“On our 6 a.m. walk, my daughter asked where the moon goes each morning. I let her know it’s in heaven visiting Daddy’s freedom.”
– Ryan Reynolds

“I gave my father $100 and said, ‘Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.’ So he went out and bought a present for my mother.”
– Rita Rudner

“My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.”
– Spike Milligan

“You can tell what was the best year of your father’s life because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out.”
– Jerry Seinfeld

“Before I got married, I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.”
– John Wilmot

Want more inspiration and laughs for your summer? Then take a look at these inspirational June quotes, the short summer quotes here and also this one with lots of funny summer quotes and sayings.