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Thought-of-the-Day
June 2003 Archive

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06/02/03"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them." - Leo Buscaglia
06/03/03"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living." - Anais Nin
06/04/03"Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision." - Hsi-Tang
06/05/03"One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire." - John W. Foster
06/06/03"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice." - William James
06/07/03"Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance." - Samuel Butler
06/08/03"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill." - Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld
06/09/03"The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: Humility is endless." - T.S Eliot
06/10/03"Life is mostly froth and bubble, / Two things stand like stone, / Kindness in another's trouble, / Courage in your own." - Adam Lindsay Gordon
06/11/03"A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives the rose." - Chinese proverb
06/12/03"By trying to make things easier for their children parents can make things much harder for them." - Mardy Grothe
06/13/03"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." - Immanuel Kant
06/14/03"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." - Franklin P. Jones
06/15/03"Nature uses as little as possible of anything." - Johannes Kepler
06/16/03"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have." - Edward Everett Hale
06/17/03"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, / And all the sweet serenity of books." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
06/18/03"Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves." - Nathaniel Branden
06/19/03"Laughter is inner jogging." - Norman Cousins
06/20/03"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself." - Marcel Proust
06/21/03"One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
06/22/03"You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive." - James Baldwin
06/23/03"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams
06/24/03"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen." - Henry David Thoreau
06/25/03"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." - Henry Kahlil Gibran
06/26/03"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity." - Thomas Wolfe
06/27/03"The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future." - Oscar Wilde
06/28/03"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Isaac Newton
06/29/03"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson
06/30/03"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created." - Albert Einstein


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