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DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
10/01/14 | "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton |
10/02/14 | "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend." - Anonymous / Charles Caleb Colton / Walter Winchell |
10/03/14 | "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln |
10/04/14 | "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
10/05/14 | "This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer." - Will Rogers |
10/06/14 | "Life is an adventure in forgiveness." - Norman Cousins |
10/07/14 | "A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company." - Charles Evans Hughes |
10/08/14 | "Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty in every age of life really never grows old." - Franz Kafka |
10/09/14 | "Patience is also a form of action." - Auguste Rodin |
10/10/14 | "The cruelest lies are often told in silence." - Robert Louis Stevenson |
10/11/14 | "Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't." - Richard Bach |
10/12/14 | "It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions." - Marcel Proust |
10/13/14 | "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!" - Sir Walter Scott |
10/14/14 | "After all is said and done, more is said than done." - Aesop |
10/15/14 | "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" - Abraham Lincoln |
10/16/14 | "One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." - Will Durant |
10/17/14 | "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." - Marcus Aurelius |
10/18/14 | "A truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can equally embrace great things and small." - Samuel Johnson |
10/19/14 | "Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius." - Benjamin Disraeli |
10/20/14 | "It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad." - James Madison |
10/21/14 | "Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts." - Albert Einstein |
10/22/14 | "Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense." - Arnold Bennett |
10/23/14 | "If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable opinion of himself." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
10/24/14 | "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 |
10/25/14 | "There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American dream." - Archibald MacLeish |
10/26/14 | "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire |
10/27/14 | "Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions -- the hero and the sidekick." - Laurence Shames |
10/28/14 | "There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to -- if there are no doors or windows -- he walks through a wall." - Bernard Malamud |
10/29/14 | "Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain -- and most fools do." - Dale Carnegie |
10/30/14 | "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." - Charles Swindoll |
10/31/14 | "Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary." - J.M. Barrie |
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