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

MAY 2023


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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
5/1/23      Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain." - Vivian Greene
5/2/23      "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." - Orpah Winfrey
5/3/23      "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
5/4/23      "As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other is for helping others." - Audrey Hepburn
5/5/23      "In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel
5/6/23      "There's a lot of things great about life. But I think tomorrow is the most important thing. Comes in to us at midnight very clean, ya know. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne from Playboy interview, May 1971.
5/7/23      "Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use these languages, or we remain mute." - J. G. Ballard from Crash, 1974.
5/8/23      "It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place." - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette from Colette. My Mother's House and Sido. United Kingdom, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002, p.30.
5/9/23      Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coastand tell me if it looks like a discovered and settled country, and not rather, for the most part, like a desolate island, and No-Man's Land." - Henry David Thoreau from The Maine Woods,1873, pg 83.
5/10/23      "The best revenge is massive success." - Frank Sinatra
5/11/23      "A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing." - Oscar Wilde from The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1895, pg 33.
5/12/23      "Fall seven times and stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb
5/13/23      "Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see." - Confucius
5/14/23      "First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end." - Aristotle
5/15/23      "If the wind will not serve, take to the oars." - Latin Proverb
5/16/23      "You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground." - Unknown
5/17/23      "We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained." - Marie Curie
5/18/23      "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." - Les Brown
5/19/23      "Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart." - Ancient Indian Proverb
5/20/23      "Believe you can and you’re halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
5/21/23      "Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear." - George Addair
5/22/23      "Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." - Joshua J. Marine
5/23/23      "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." - Booker T. Washington
5/24/23      "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." - Les Brown
5/25/23      "Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart." - Ancient Indian Proverb
5/26/23      "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau
5/27/23      "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
5/28/23      "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh
5/29/23      "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin
5/30/23      "The best revenge is massive success." - Frank Sinatra
5/31/23      "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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