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Thought-of-the-Day
June 2012 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
06/01/12"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, continued, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic." - John F. Kennedy
06/02/12"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
06/03/12"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
06/04/12"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
06/05/12"All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope." - Alexandre Dumas Pere
06/06/12"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started." - Marcus Garvey
06/07/12"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved." - Margaret Fuller
06/08/12"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another." - Reinhold Niebuhr
06/09/12"A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment." - Harvey S. Firestone
06/10/12"We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, And along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results." - Herman Melville
06/11/12"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." - Carl Jung
06/12/12"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's." - Billy Wilder
06/13/12"You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose." - Harry Browne
06/14/12"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better." - Richard Hooker
06/15/12"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
06/16/12"The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often even more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are." - Niccolo Machiavelli
06/17/12"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." - Charles Wadsworth
06/18/12"The only true freedom each of us has in life is the freedom to choose. The most important choice is who we will become." - John C. Maxwell
06/19/12"The art of happiness lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." - Henry Ward Beecher
06/20/12"Submission to what people call their 'lot' is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another." - Elizabeth von Arnim
06/21/12"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions." - Adlai E. Stevenson
06/22/12"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend." - Thomas Chandler Haliburton
06/23/12"It's not your job to like me -- it's mine." - Byron Katie
06/24/12"If you can make people laugh, you get all the love you want." - Art Buchwald
06/25/12"Failure: A man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience." - Elbert Hubbard
06/26/12"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" - T.S. Eliot
06/27/12"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
06/28/12"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." - Jean de la Bruyere
06/29/12"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism." - Hannah Arendt
06/30/12"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better." - Albert Camus


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