DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
2/1/09 |
"I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82." - Dave Brubeck
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2/2/09 |
"Men build too many walls and not enough bridges." - Isaac Newton
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2/3/09 |
"One should count each day a separate life." - Seneca
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2/4/09 |
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." - Marie Curie
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2/5/09 |
"I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself." - Michel de Montaigne
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2/6/09 |
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." - Patrick Henry
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2/7/09 |
"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." - Lee Iacocca
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2/8/09 |
"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little." - Sydney Smith
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2/9/09 |
"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain." - Samuel Johnson
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2/10/09 |
"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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2/11/09 |
"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements." - Norman Douglas
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2/12/09 |
"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition." - Abraham Lincoln
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2/13/09 |
"Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill
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2/14/09 |
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." - Erich Fromm
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2/15/09 |
"A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities." - Herman Melville
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2/16/09 |
"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice." - Mahatma Gandhi
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2/17/09 |
"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." - Benjamin Franklin
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2/18/09 |
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." - Aristotle
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2/19/09 |
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan
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2/20/09 |
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London
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2/21/09 |
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. - Michael Leunig
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2/22/09 |
Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. - Alvin Toffler
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2/23/09 |
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. - Stephen King
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2/24/09 |
To find yourself, think for yourself - Socrates
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2/25/09 |
It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it. - Robert Musil
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2/26/09 |
Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are. - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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2/27/09 |
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. - Will Rogers
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2/28/09 |
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. - Ogden Nash
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