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Thought-of-the-Day
August 2018 Archive

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08/01/18"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality." - Mahatma Gandhi
08/02/18"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization." - Arnold Toynbee
08/03/18"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." - Benjamin Franklin
08/04/18"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." - Winston Churchill
08/05/18"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." - Abraham Lincoln
08/06/18"Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power." - Henry George
08/07/18"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." - John Barrymore
08/08/18"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
08/09/18"Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life." - J. K. Rowling
08/10/18"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." - Thomas Jefferson
08/11/18"I shut my eyes in order to see." - Paul Gauguin
08/12/18"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me." - W. Somerset Maugham
08/13/18"There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love." - Christopher Morley
08/14/18"Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time." - Meryl Streep
08/15/18"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out." - Jane Austen
08/16/18"Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope." - Robert Veninga
08/17/18"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Plato
08/18/18"There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money." - Ann Richards
08/19/18"Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened." - Stanley Walker
08/20/18"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso
08/21/18"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." - Henry J. Kaiser
08/22/18"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else." - Bernadette Devlin
08/23/18"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct." - Benjamin Disraeli
08/24/18"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." - Maya Angelou
08/25/18"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat." - Socrates
08/26/18"We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears." - John McCain
08/27/18"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." - Pearl Buck
08/28/18"Management is nothing more than motivating other people." - Lee Iacocca
08/29/18"We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself." - Jimmy Carter
08/30/18"He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good." - Jewish Proverb
08/31/18"I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed." - L. M. Montgomery


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