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Thought-of-the-Day
September 2018 Archive

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09/01/18"Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated." - Robert S. McNamara
09/02/18"The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered." - Andre Gide
09/03/18"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild." - John Muir
09/04/18"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
09/05/18"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." - Henry David Thoreau
09/06/18"As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it." - Mahatma Gandhi
09/07/18"The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is." - Desiderius Erasmus
09/08/18"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try." - Mother Teresa
09/09/18"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." - Sophocles
09/10/18"[Spring is] when life's alive in everything." - Christina Rossetti
09/11/18"America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man." - Woodrow Wilson
09/12/18"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!" - Theodore Roosevelt
09/13/18"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
09/14/18"[Spring is] a true reconstructionist." - Henry Timrod
09/15/18"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth." - John F. Kennedy
09/16/18"I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person." - Socrates
09/17/18"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age." - Charles Caleb Colton
09/18/18"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." - Winston Churchill
09/19/18"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us." - Henri Matisse
09/20/18"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
09/21/18"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is." - Erich Fromm
09/22/18"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable." - Clifton Fadiman
09/23/18"Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them." - Saint Basil
09/24/18"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." - Benjamin Disraeli
09/25/18"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent." - Sophia Loren
09/26/18"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior." - Sir Francis Bacon
09/27/18"You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more." - Oprah Winfrey
09/28/18"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things." - Plato
09/29/18"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived." - Helen Keller
09/30/18"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." - Mahatma Gandhi


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