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Thought-of-the-Day
May 2016 Archive

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05/01/16"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have." - Edward Everett Hale
05/02/16"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." - John Wooden
05/03/16"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." - Harvey Fierstein
05/04/16"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered; it is something molded." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
05/05/16"Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
05/06/16"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on." - Walter Lippmann
05/07/16"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." - Aldous Huxley
05/08/16"Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever." - Author Unknown
05/09/16"What does not kill me, makes me stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche
05/10/16"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
05/11/16"Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you." - Annie Dillard
05/12/16"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do." - Liz Smith
05/13/16"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
05/14/16"The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it." - Oscar Wilde
05/15/16"This above all: To thine own self, be true." - William Shakespeare
05/16/16"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." - Maya Angelou
05/17/16"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss in life is what dies inside us while we live." - Norman Cousin
05/18/16"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
05/19/16"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - Cecil Beaton
05/20/16"If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you don't bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you." - Jodi Picoult
05/21/16"And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either."- Leo Tolstoy
05/22/16"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
05/23/16"Think for yourselves, and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too." - Voltaire
05/24/16"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
05/25/16"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche
05/26/16"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
05/27/16"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." - Elie Wiesel
05/28/16"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
05/29/16"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston S. Churchill
05/30/16"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." - Joseph Campbell from The Power of Myth
05/31/16"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman


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