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Thought-of-the-Day
February 2018 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
02/01/18"A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver." - Eleanor Hamilton
02/02/18"Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary." - Peter Minard
02/03/18"I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over." - L. M. Montgomery
02/04/18"The body says what words cannot." - Martha Graham
02/05/18"It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors." - Plutarch
02/06/18"To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak." - C. Kent Wright
02/07/18"The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame." - Rod Steiger
02/08/18"Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes." - Kenneth Hildebrand
02/09/18"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment." - William Penn
02/10/18"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny." - Jean Nidetch
02/11/18"They certainly give very strange names to diseases." - Plato
02/12/18"I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out." - David Sedaris
02/13/18"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." - B. F. Skinner
02/14/18"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
02/15/18"Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home." - David Frost
02/16/18"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." - Mahatma Gandhi
02/17/18"It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember." - Eugene McCarthy
02/18/18"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." - Hermann Hesse
02/19/18"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad." - Norm Papernick
02/20/18"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." - Albert Einstein
02/21/18"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse." - Benjamin Franklin
02/22/18"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise." - W. Somerset Maugham
02/23/18"Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to." - Mark Twain
02/24/18"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" - Henry David Thoreau
02/25/18"There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness." - Franz Kafka
02/26/18"The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you." - Nancy Astor
02/27/18"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." - Thomas Carlyle
02/28/18"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do." - Freya Madeline Stark


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