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Thought-of-the-Day
October 2015 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
10/01/15"Democracy is the pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken
10/02/15"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford
10/03/15"You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out." - Steve Jobs
10/04/15"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Lady Dorothy Nevill
10/05/15"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil." - Victor Hugo
10/06/15"With will one can do anything." - Samuel Smiles
10/07/15"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a heaven that it shows itself cloddish." - Evelyn Waugh
10/08/15"The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience." - Alfred Stieglitz
10/09/15"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, -- quieter, warmer." - Dag Hammarskjold
10/10/15"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have." - Vince Lombardi
10/11/15"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness." - Seneca
10/12/15"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire." - Ferdinand Foch
10/13/15"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
10/14/15"The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves." - Amelia Earhart
10/15/15"Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life." - Thich Nhat Hanh
10/16/15"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity." - Albert Camus
10/17/15"It's better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction." - Diane Grant
10/18/15"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value." - Charles Dudley Warner
10/19/15"Patience is also a form of action." - Auguste Rodin
10/20/15"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be." - Kahlil Gibran
10/21/15"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
10/22/15"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." - Edmund Hillary
10/23/15"The fierce urgency of now." - Martin Luther King Jr.
10/24/15"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand." - Emily Kimbrough
10/25/15"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us." - Flora Edwards
10/26/15"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood." - James Madison
10/27/15"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." - Anton Chekhov
10/28/15"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino
10/29/15"In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman." - Margaret Thatcher
10/30/15"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet." - Mahatma Gandhi
10/31/15"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


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