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DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
12/01/08 | "The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity." - George Bernard Shaw |
12/02/08 | "No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." - Sam Rayburn |
12/03/08 | "The art of pleasing consists in being pleased." - William Hazlitt |
12/04/08 | "The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning." - Carl Gustav Jung |
12/05/08 | "Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten." - Thomas Otway |
12/06/08 | "To choose what is difficult all one's day, as if it were easy, that is faith." - W.H. Auden |
12/07/08 | "Be who you are and say what you feel 'cause people who mind don't matter, and people who matter don't mind." - Theodor Seuss Geisel |
12/08/08 | "Words are loaded pistols." - Jean-Paul Sartre |
12/09/08 | "The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences." - D.H. Lawrence |
12/10/08 | "Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy." - Nora Ephron |
12/11/08 | "Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure." - Knute Rockne |
12/12/08 | "Take anything and everything seriously except yourselves." - Rudyard Kipling |
12/13/08 | "The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
12/14/08 | "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." - Winston Churchill |
12/15/08 | "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw |
12/16/08 | "The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong." - Jeremy Bentham |
12/17/08 | "Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility." - James Thurber |
12/18/08 | "We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves." - Eric Hoffer |
12/19/08 | "My friends are my estate." - Emily Dickinson |
12/20/08 | "The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is." - Desiderius Erasmus |
12/21/08 | "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right." - Thomas Paine |
12/22/08 | "We do not acquire humility. There is humility in us - only we humiliate ourselves before false gods." - Simone Weil |
12/23/08 | "For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear." - Marilyn C. Barrick from Sacred Psychology of Love. |
12/24/08 | "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads." - Clement Clarke Moore |
12/25/08 | "At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year." - Thomas Tusser |
12/26/08 | "This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess." - Rainer Maria Rilke |
12/27/08 | "Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there." - Clare Boothe Luce |
12/28/08 | "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi |
12/29/08 | "We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them." - Livy |
12/30/08 | "Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes |
12/31/08 | "For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning." - T.S. Eliot |
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