In social networks, you can often see a motivational quote from Jim Kerry supposedly that getting out of bed in the morning is easier when a person is happy. We found out if the actor said such words.

The phrase “You will be surprised how easy it is in the morning to get out of bed when you are happy” and its derivatives indicating the authorship of Kerry and meet in Twitter, and c Facebook, and c "Classmates", and in "VKontakte", and c Instagram. Often, thousands of likes and hundreds of reposts receive posts with these words. Besides, There is in Runet A bunch sites With quotes, where these “words of Kerry” are also given.

But in English a similar phrase is nowhere to be found, especially behind the authorship of the famous comedian. Considering that Kerry is a Canadian, not a Russian, the probability that he initially uttered a phrase in Russian tends to zero.

To determine the real author, we tracked when the quote appeared in RuNet and when it fixed the actor. According to search VKontakte site, on social networks there are only about 700 text records with these words and the mention of Jim Kerry, and the most Early Date July 2017. That is, around that period, the comedian became the “author” of the quote.

However, the phrase itself existed earlier - in 2015. Moreover, in the original version they used the female clan: "You will be surprised how easy it is to get out of bed in the morning when you are happy." But at the same time, the author was often indicated by a certain Ivan Mashkovsky. On some sites indicatedthat Mashkovsky is a character of Samizdat called “unique reality” (“NR”), and among other heroes appears Grigory Palych.

When searching for people with that name, it was possible to find designer, practicing the creation and mile of multi -page publications (magazines, newspapers, brochures), as well as the design of social networks. At the same time, in his VK group “Polygraphy design, logos, retouching photos to order”, motivational quotes were also placed, but there was no desired phrase. Among the subscribers of the group there was a user Grigory Palych, on which on the wall there are reposts of the public “unique reality” (the search for “VKontakte” does not give it out, possibly due to the subject of 18+).

And at that moment everything came together: the administrator of NR turned out to be the same Grigory Palych, the same Ivan Mashkovsky was signed on the public, and the same group “Polygraphy Design” was indicated in the links. And the original quote was Published April 6, 2015. We wrote to Ivan, and in personal correspondence he confirmed that he was the author of the phrase. Mashkovsky added that not all quotes in the community were invented by the administration, but only some.

In conclusion, we note that the phrase about bed and happiness in meaning is very reminiscent of words from the 2004 novel "Where the rainbow ends" (Were rainbows end) Cecilia ahern. In the 12th chapter of the book there is such a moment: “You will be surprised to what extent it is easy to get out of bed in the morning, if you have to do what does not cause a desire to throw yourself out the window.” By the way, this quote has repeatedly been published in "Unique reality".