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DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
09/01/18 | "Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated." - Robert S. McNamara |
09/02/18 | "The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered." - Andre Gide |
09/03/18 | "Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild." - John Muir |
09/04/18 | "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin |
09/05/18 | "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." - Henry David Thoreau |
09/06/18 | "As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it." - Mahatma Gandhi |
09/07/18 | "The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is." - Desiderius Erasmus |
09/08/18 | "God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try." - Mother Teresa |
09/09/18 | "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." - Sophocles |
09/10/18 | "[Spring is] when life's alive in everything." - Christina Rossetti |
09/11/18 | "America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man." - Woodrow Wilson |
09/12/18 | "Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!" - Theodore Roosevelt |
09/13/18 | "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward." - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
09/14/18 | "[Spring is] a true reconstructionist." - Henry Timrod |
09/15/18 | "We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth." - John F. Kennedy |
09/16/18 | "I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person." - Socrates |
09/17/18 | "We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age." - Charles Caleb Colton |
09/18/18 | "It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." - Winston Churchill |
09/19/18 | "Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us." - Henri Matisse |
09/20/18 | "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
09/21/18 | "Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is." - Erich Fromm |
09/22/18 | "When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable." - Clifton Fadiman |
09/23/18 | "Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them." - Saint Basil |
09/24/18 | "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." - Benjamin Disraeli |
09/25/18 | "Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent." - Sophia Loren |
09/26/18 | "In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior." - Sir Francis Bacon |
09/27/18 | "You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more." - Oprah Winfrey |
09/28/18 | "If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things." - Plato |
09/29/18 | "Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived." - Helen Keller |
09/30/18 | "Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." - Mahatma Gandhi |
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