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Thought-of-the-Day
May 2011 Archive

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05/01/11"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss
05/02/11"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." - Ernest Hemingway
05/03/11"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly." - Siddhārtha Gautama
05/04/11"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein
05/05/11"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage." - Maya Angelou
05/06/11"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William Arthur Ward
05/07/11"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." - Aristotle
05/08/11"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
05/09/11"My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best." - Winston S. Churchill
05/10/11"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will." - Chuck Palahniuk
05/11/11"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!" - Jane Austen
05/12/11"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." - Maya Angelou
05/13/11"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot
05/14/11"Failure is an event, never a person." - William D. Brown
05/15/11"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw
05/16/11"Get busy living or get busy dying." - Stephen King
05/17/11"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
05/18/11"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." - William Shakespeare
05/19/11"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." - Elie Wiesel
05/20/11"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov
05/21/11"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live." - Gustave Flaubert
05/22/11"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Winston S. Churchill
05/23/11"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person." - Audrey Hepburn
05/24/11"Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure." - J.K. Rowling
05/25/11"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet." - Plato
05/26/11"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours." - Ayn Rand
05/27/11"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln
05/28/11"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway
05/29/11"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is." - Albert Camus
05/30/11"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." - Joseph Campbell from The Power of Myth
05/31/11"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein


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