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Thought-of-the-Day
March 2016 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
03/01/16"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville
03/02/16"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John R. Wooden
03/03/16"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it." - Colette
03/04/16"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." - Victor Hugo
03/05/16"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Dr. Viktor E. Frankl
03/06/16"A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world." - Joseph Addison
03/07/16"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so." - John Stuart Mill
03/08/16"Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through." - Jarod Kintz
03/09/16"To be prepared is half the victory." - Miguel de Cervantes
03/10/16"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." - Steve Jobs
03/11/16"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
03/12/16"The ability to summon positive emotions during periods of intense stress lies at the heart of effective leadership." - Jim Loehr
03/13/16"The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity." - Ruby Dee
03/14/16"There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world even though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind." - Hannah Szenes
03/15/16"We shall not cease from exploration; And the end of all our exploring; Will be to arrive where we started; And know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot
03/16/16"Time is the fairest and toughest judge." - Edgar Quinet
03/17/16"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." - Joseph Campbell
03/18/16"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
03/19/16"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." - Joseph Campbell
03/20/16"We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another." - Veronica Roth
03/21/16"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." - Sigmund Freud
03/22/16"Don't think or judge, just listen." - Sarah Dessen
03/23/16"The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
03/24/16"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not." - Seneca
03/25/16"It's time to start living the life you've imagined." - Henry James
03/26/16"Do one thing every day that scares you." - Eleanor Roosevelt
03/27/16"No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow." - Maya Angelou
03/28/16"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
03/29/16"... remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else." - E.E. Cummings
03/30/16"Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing. We accept the love we think we deserve." - Stephen Chbosky
03/31/16"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


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