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Thought-of-the-Day
January 2001 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
01/01/01"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
01/02/01"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." - Will Rogers
01/03/01" 'He means well' is useless unless he does well." - Plautus
01/04/01"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce
01/05/01"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." - Nikos Kazantzakis
01/06/01"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." - Confucius
01/07/01"Practice is the best of all instructors." - Publilius Syrus
01/08/01"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
01/09/01"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." - Albert Camus
01/10/01"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without." - Confucius
01/11/01"It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible." - C. G. Jung
01/12/01"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe
01/13/01"As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do." - Zachary Scott
01/14/01"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it." - William Arthur Ward
01/15/01"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught." - J. C. Watts
01/16/01"A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well." - Dan Rather
01/17/01"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine." - Lord Byron
01/18/01"Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment." - Andre Maurois
01/19/01"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - Henry Van Dyke
01/20/01"Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows." - Sir William Osler
01/21/01"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say." - Charles Caleb Cotton
01/22/01"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
01/23/01"The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character." - Isabelle Eberhardt
01/24/01"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life." - Dr. David M. Burns
01/25/01"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself." - Christine Bovee
01/26/01"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum." - Frances Willard
01/27/01"If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry." - African Proverb
01/28/01"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley
01/29/01"Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity." - Chilo
01/30/01"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly." - Plutarch
01/31/01"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults." - Antisthenes


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