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Thought-of-the-Day
December 2013 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
12/01/13"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus
12/02/13"The hard and stiff will be broken, the soft and supple will prevail." - Tao te Ching
12/03/13"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen
12/04/13"There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare
12/05/13"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." - Friedrich Nietzsche
12/06/13"My friends are my estate." - Emily Dickinson
12/07/13"It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around." - Henry David Thoreau
12/08/13"The middle of the road is where the white line is-and that's the worst place to drive." - Robert Frost
12/09/13"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency." - Theodore Roosevelt
12/10/13"What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?" - Henry Miller
12/11/13"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." - Isaac Asimov
12/12/13"The way we see the problem is the problem." - Stephen Covey
12/13/13"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
12/14/13"Literature is news that stays news." - Ezra Pound
12/15/13"Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns." - John Clarke
12/16/13"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." - W. H. Auden
12/17/13"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." - Andre Gide
12/18/13"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight." - Benjamin Franklin
12/19/13"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." - Thomas A. Edison
12/20/13"If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way." - Jane Goodall
12/21/13"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny." - Albert Ellis
12/22/13"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it." - George Bernard Shaw
12/23/13"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
12/24/13"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things." - Robert Louis Stevenson
12/25/13"A good conscience is a continual Christmas." - Benjamin Franklin
12/26/13"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity." - Albert Camus
12/27/13"Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter." - Joseph Addison
12/28/13"A good home must be made, not bought." - Joyce Maynard
12/29/13"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
12/30/13"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius
12/31/13"Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer." - Walter Scott


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