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DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
06/01/08 | "I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite." - Bertrand Russell |
06/02/08 | "There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return." - Franz Kafka |
06/03/08 | "There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament." - Henry Van Dyke |
06/04/08 | "Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
06/05/08 | "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." - Naguib Mahfouz |
06/06/08 | "Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations -- plus or minus -- it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology." - Norman Cousins |
06/07/08 | "The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend." - Abraham Lincoln |
06/08/08 | "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
06/09/08 | "Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle." - James Russell Lowell |
06/10/08 | "Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin |
06/11/08 | "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." - Alice Walker |
06/12/08 | "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." - Henry David Thoreau |
06/13/08 | "A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce |
06/14/08 | "How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees." |
06/15/08 | "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Joseph Addison |
06/16/08 | "Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians." - Chester Bowles |
06/17/08 | "The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs." - Joan Didion |
06/18/08 | "Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life." - Marc Chagall |
06/19/08 | "It is easier to be critical than correct." - Benjamin Disraeli |
06/20/08 | "What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
06/21/08 | "A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world." - John Locke |
06/22/08 | "The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him." - Rachel Carson |
06/23/08 | "There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming." - Soren Kierkegaard |
06/24/08 | "The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%." - Andrew Carnegie |
06/25/08 | "Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore." - Ogden Nash |
06/26/08 | "Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes." - Seneca |
06/27/08 | "Be the change you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi |
06/28/08 | "The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office." - Robert Frost |
06/29/08 | "Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls." - Joseph Campbell |
06/30/08 | "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind." - William James |
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