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Thought-of-the-Day
March 2000 Archive

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03/01/00"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Bertrand Russell
03/02/00"What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can." - Henry Thoreau
03/03/00"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." - George Eliot
03/04/00"Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible." - Dr. Karl Menninger
03/05/00"Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable." - Andre Gide
03/06/00"When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind." - Michel Montaigne
03/07/00"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
03/08/00"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." - Helen Keller
03/09/00"While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned." - Seneca
03/10/00"I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'" - Chief Justice Earl Warren
03/11/00"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity." - Francis Maitland Balfour
03/12/00"Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare." - John Dryden
03/13/00"Nothing endures but personal qualities." - Walt Whitman
03/14/00"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else." - Eleanor Roosevelt
03/15/00"When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one." - Mark Twain
03/16/00"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison
03/17/00"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - Charles Kingsley
03/18/00"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do." - John Holt
03/19/00"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." - Victor Borge
03/20/00"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." - Andrew Carnegie
03/21/00"Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, especially if the goods are worthless." - Sinclair Lewis
03/22/00"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience." - Anatole Broyard
03/23/00"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being." - Carl Jung
03/24/00"I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary." - Jules Feiffer
03/25/00"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined." - Henry David Thoreau
03/26/00"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven." - Henry Ward Beecher
03/27/00"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark." - Samuel Johnson
03/28/00"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it." - Robert Heinlein
03/29/00"Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you." - Horace
03/30/00" It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't know'." - W. Somerset Maugham
03/31/00"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." - Arthur Ashe


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