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THOUGHT-OF-THE-DAY ARCHIVE
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
- Marcus Aurelius
MAY 2013
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5/1/13
"The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future." - John Maynard Keynes
5/2/13
"Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop." - Alfred Polgar
5/3/13
"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we seek too late the one that is open." - Alexander Graham Bell
5/4/13
"Deliberation is the function of many; action is the function of one." - Charles de Gaulle
5/5/13
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought." - William Shakespeare
5/6/13
"Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things." - Ray Bradbury
5/7/13
"The music that can deepest reach, and cure all ill, is cordial speech." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
5/8/13
"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible." - George Orwell
5/9/13
"Life is an adventure in forgiveness." - Norman Cousins
5/10/13
"For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great." - Jose Ortega y Gasset
5/11/13
"The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless." - Dorothy L. Sayers
5/12/13
"Have the courage to act instead of react." - Earlene Larson Jenks
5/13/13
"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know." - Michel de Montaigne
5/14/13
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative." - H. G. Wells
5/15/13
"Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others." - Robert Louis Stevenson
5/16/13
"What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team." - Benjamin F. Fairless
5/17/13
"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt." - William Cornelius Van Horne
5/18/13
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was 'thank you,' that would suffice." - Meister Eckhart
5/19/13
"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones, which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart." - Henry Clay
5/20/13
"Wishes cost nothing unless you want them to come true." - Frank Tyger
5/21/13
"Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences." - Robert Louis Stevenson
5/22/13
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim
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