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Thought-of-the-Day
January 2014 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
01/01/14"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering 'it will be happier.' " - Alfred Lord Tennyson
01/02/14"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret." - Henri Frederic Amiel
01/03/14"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone. For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
01/04/14"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." - Henry Ward Beecher
01/05/14"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." - Socrates
01/06/14"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks." - Charlotte Brontë aka: Charlotte Bronte
01/07/14"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars." - Rabindranath Tagore
01/08/14"Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him." - Romain Gary
01/09/14"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison
01/10/14"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something; Gifted people ARE that something." - Steve Maraboli
01/11/14"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." - Confucius
01/12/14"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm." - Henrik Ibsen
01/13/14"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci
01/14/14"Quality is not an act, it is a habit." - Aristotle
01/15/14"Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are." - Steve Jobs
01/16/14"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." - Steve Jobs
01/17/14"Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion of great hearts." - James Russell Lowell
01/18/14"To know oneself, one should assert oneself." - Albert Camus
01/19/14"It is impossible to live pleasurably without living prudently, and honorably, and justly; or to live prudently, and honorably, and justly, without living pleasurably." - Epicurus
01/20/14"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." - Albert Schweitzer
01/21/14"Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius." - Georges-Louis Leclerc
01/22/14"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear." - Norman Vincent Peale
01/23/14"A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit." - Samuel Johnson
01/24/14"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
01/25/14"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
01/26/14"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
01/27/14"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
01/28/14"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
01/29/14"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it." - Jean de la Fontaine
01/30/14"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
01/31/14"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost


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