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Thought-of-the-Day
February 2012 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
02/01/12"To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane." - Jane Harrison
02/02/12"Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other." - William Faulkner
02/03/12"I realized a long time ago that a belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all." - Evelyn Scott
02/04/12"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, "What! You too? I thought I was the only one." - C.S. Lewis
02/05/12"An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being." - Bertrand Russell
02/06/12"People don't care how much you know--until they know how much you care." - John C. Maxwell
02/07/12"Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work." - Booker T. Washington
02/08/12"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
02/09/12"The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know." - Blaise Pascal
02/10/12"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion." - Jack Welch
02/11/12"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb." - Nelson Mandela
02/12/12"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." - John Muir
02/13/12"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing." - Katherine Mansfield
02/14/12"Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.
Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
And the sky of the sky of a tree called life;
Which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide.
And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart.
I carry your heart.
I carry it in my heart." - E. E. Cummings
02/15/12"Debt is the worst poverty." - Thomas Fuller
02/16/12"The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it." - Joyce Carol Oates
02/17/12"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." - George Washington Carver
02/18/12"To do two things at once is to do neither." - Publilius Syrus
02/19/12"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." - David Brinkley
02/20/12"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." - e.e. cummings
02/21/12"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas Alva Edison
02/22/12"Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius." - Robert Brault
02/23/12"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
02/24/12"Don't find fault. Find a remedy." - Henry Ford
02/25/12"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do." - Sarah Ban Breathnach
02/26/12"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." - Ralph Marston
02/27/12"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
02/28/12"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
02/29/12"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin


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