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Thought-of-the-Day
December 2018 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
12/01/18"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau
12/02/18"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart." - Saint Jerome
12/03/18"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." - Franklin P. Jones
12/04/18"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." - Lin Yutang
12/05/18"To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
12/06/18"When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks." - Bob Dylan
12/07/18"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." - J. K. Rowling
12/08/18"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it." - L. M. Montgomery
12/09/18"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
12/10/18"I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." - Gilda Radner
12/11/18"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." - Winston Churchill
12/12/18"Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation." - Woodrow Wilson
12/13/18"It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours." - Sam Ewing
12/14/18"In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras." - Tom Nolan
12/17/18"No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive." - Dr. Joyce Brothers
12/18/18"Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age." - George Burns
12/19/18"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol
12/20/18"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius
12/21/18"The wisest mind has something yet to learn." - George Santayana
12/22/18"Imagination is more important than knowledge..." - Albert Einstein
12/23/18"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem." - Henry Kissinger
12/24/18"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." - Aldous Huxley
12/25/18"When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face." - Hugh Elliott
12/26/18"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." - J. K. Rowling
12/27/18"When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us." - Barack Obama
12/28/18"A life lived in chaos is an impossibility..." - Madeleine L'Engle
12/29/18"A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats." - Marie De France
12/30/18"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers." - Martin Luther King Jr.
12/31/18"Fish and visitors smell in three days." - Benjamin Franklin


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