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Thought-of-the-Day
January 2016 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
01/01/16"For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice." - T.S. Eliot
01/02/16"Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'." - Dr. Viktor E. Frankl
01/03/16"Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined." - Leo Rosten
01/04/16"To see a world in a grain of sand, / And a heaven in a wild flower, / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, / And eternity in an hour." - William Blake
01/05/16"Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others may receive your orders without being humiliated." - Dag Hammarskjold
01/06/16"Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king." - Mark Van Doren
01/07/16"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership." - John Kenneth Galbraith
01/08/16"Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us." - Malcolm De Chazal
01/09/16"The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be." - Louis de Bernieres
01/10/16"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people." - Carl Jung
01/11/16"What worries you, masters you." - John Locke
01/12/16"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power." - Clint Eastwood
01/13/16"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." - Hermann Hesse
01/14/16"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway
01/15/16"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end." - Immanuel Kant
01/16/16"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
01/17/16"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less." - C.S. Lewis
01/18/16"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace, and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific, and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist!" - Martin Luther King Jr.
01/19/16"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent van Gogh
01/20/16"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient observation than to any other reason." - Isaac Newton
01/21/16"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are." - Marcus Aurelius
01/22/16"To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
01/23/16"The soul that is within me no man can degrade." - Frederick Douglass
01/24/16"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness." - James Thurber
01/25/16"Real communication happens when people feel safe." - Ken Blanchard
01/26/16"The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why." - Mark Twain
01/27/16"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good." - Margaret Mead
01/28/16"Genius is eternal patience." - Michelangelo
01/29/16"The real world is much smaller than the imaginary." - Friedrich Nietzsche
01/30/16"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever." - Jessamyn West
01/31/16"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there." - Marcus Aurelius


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