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

JUN 2022


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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
6/1/22      "No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." - Helen Keller
6/2/22      "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama
6/3/22      "Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it." - Thomas Jefferson
6/4/22      "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
6/5/22      "The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be" - Warren Buffett
6/7/22      "Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations." - Desmond Tutu
6/8/22      "I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness." - Nelson Mandela
6/9/22      "Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
6/10/22      "No work with interest is ever hard. I am always certain of results. They always come if you work hard enough." - Henry Ford
6/11/22      "A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde
6/12/22      Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best. - Jules Verne
6/13/22      "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." - Arthur Conan Doyle
6/14/22      "It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more." - Woody Allen
6/15/22      "It's a lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself." - Muhammad Ali
6/16/22      "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." - Marilyn Monroe
6/17/22      "Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." - A. A. Milne
6/18/22      "In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it." - Michel de Montaigne
6/19/22      "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
6/20/22      "There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it." - George Bernard Shaw
6/21/22      "I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education.' This is the cause to which I want to devote my life." - Malala Yousafzai
6/22/22      "I decided to become a community organizer... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots." - Barack Obama
6/23/22      "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence." - Louis Pasteur
6/24/22      "Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." - Desmond Tutu
6/25/22      "We are not children twice, as the saying is, but for ever; the difference is that we play bigger games." - Seneca the Younger
6/26/22      "Defeat doesn't finish a man—quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits." - Richard Nixon
6/27/22      "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." - Bill Gates
6/28/22      "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill
6/29/22      "One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake." - Anton Chekhov
6/30/22      "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." - Abraham Lincoln


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