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Thought-of-the-Day
July 2018 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
07/01/18"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." - David Russell
07/02/18"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble." - Samuel Johnson
07/03/18"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms." - George Wald
07/04/18"A person who trusts no one can't be trusted." - Jerome Blattner
07/05/18"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness." - Lao-tzu
07/06/18"Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times." - Ben Jonson
07/07/18"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - J. K. Rowling
07/08/18"Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished." - Luisa Sigea
07/09/18"You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do." - A. J. Kitt
07/10/18"There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most." - May Sarton
07/11/18"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation." - William H. Sheldon
07/12/18"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity." - John F. Kennedy
07/13/18"There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it." - Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata
07/14/18"Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great." - John L. Motley
07/15/18"Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
07/16/18"Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." - Thomas Paine
07/17/18"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be." - Rosalynn Carter
07/18/18"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions." - Aristotle
07/19/18"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." - Chinese Proverb
07/20/18"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." - Henry Miller
07/21/18"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy." - Voltaire
07/22/18"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.
07/23/18"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain
07/24/18"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness." - Lao-tzu
07/25/18"It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted." - Seneca
07/26/18"A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
07/27/18"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting." - e e cummings
07/28/18"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time." - Thomas Carlyle
07/29/18"Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth." - Archimedes
07/30/18"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude." - Katherine Mansfield
07/31/18"Adversity does teach who your real friends are." - Lois McMaster Bujold


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