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Thought-of-the-Day
October 2016 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
10/01/16"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego." - Jean Arp
10/02/16"Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
10/03/16"The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one." - John Maxwell
10/04/16"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." - Mark Twain
10/05/16"What power has love but forgiveness?" - William Carlos Williams
10/06/16"The more joy we have, the more nearly perfect we are." - Spinoza
10/07/16"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble." - Plautus
10/08/16"Creativity is intelligence having fun." - Albert Einstein
10/09/16"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
10/10/16"In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are." - Max DePree
10/11/16"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Robert J. Hanlon
10/12/16"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." - Seneca
10/13/16"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for." - Nancy D. Solomon
10/14/16"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." - William Feather
10/15/16"No legacy is so rich as honesty." - William Shakespeare
10/16/16"A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ." - John Steinbeck
10/17/16"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel
10/18/16"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence." - Vince Lombardi
10/19/16"History is a nightmare from which I'm trying to wake." - James Joyce
10/20/16"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
10/21/16"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
10/22/16"It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board." - Patrick Lencioni
10/23/16"Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say." - Napoleon Hill
10/24/16"Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way." - Alice Childress
10/25/16"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
10/26/16"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." - William Faulkner
10/27/16"The human body is the best picture of the human soul." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
10/28/16"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
10/29/16"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve." - Benjamin Franklin
10/30/16"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." - Maya Angelou
10/31/16"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw


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