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THOUGHT-OF-THE-DAY ARCHIVE
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
- Marcus Aurelius

AUG 2021


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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
8/1/21      "Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something." - Morihei Ueshiba
8/2/21      "As is the case in all branches of art, success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion and cannot be achieved except by dint of hard work." - Anna Pavlova
8/3/21      "It requires a better type of mind to seek out and to support or to create the new than to follow the worn paths of accepted success." - John D. Rockefeller
8/4/21      "The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - Babe Ruth
8/5/21      "All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
8/6/21      "The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others." - Robert Baden-Powell
8/7/21      "There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness." - John Buchan
8/8/21      "Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." - Douglas William Jerrold
8/9/21      "Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little." - Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
8/10/21      "True happinessConsists not in the multitude of friends,
8/11/21      "There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." - George Sand
8/12/21      "Balance your thoughts with action. — If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done." - Bruce Lee
8/13/21      "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." - John Locke
8/14/21      "Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power." - René Descartes
8/15/21      "The oldest, shortest words— "yes" and "no"— are those which require the most thought." - Pythagoras
8/16/21      "I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow." - Abraham Lincoln
8/17/21      "The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. That intellectuality is more vigorous that has attained its strength gradually. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider — and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation — persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree." - Alexander Graham Bell
8/18/21      "Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind." - Abdus Salam
8/19/21      "Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!" - Lawrence Lovasik
8/20/21      "A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." - Kahlil Gibran
8/21/21      "Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you." - Diana, Princess of Wales
8/22/21      "A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself." - Alexander Graham Bell
8/23/21      "Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that 'Price is what you pay; value is what you get.' Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down." - Warren Buffett
8/24/21      "I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy." - Marie Curie
8/25/21      "One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." - Simone de Beauvoir
8/26/21      "What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." - Crowfoot
8/27/21      "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Isaac Newton
8/28/21      "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain
8/29/21      "We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter." - Denis Diderot
8/30/21      "Truth exists, only lies are invented." - Georges Braque
8/31/21      "Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." - Emily Dickinson


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