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DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
04/01/11 | "Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is ... the highway to success." - Og Mandino |
04/02/11 | "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton |
04/03/11 | "A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." - Sir Barnett Cocks |
04/04/11 | "Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness." - Charles W. Eliot |
04/05/11 | "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus |
04/06/11 | "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." - Rudyard Kipling |
04/07/11 | "Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
04/08/11 | "Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect." - Blaise Pascal |
04/09/11 | "Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest." - William Faulkner |
04/10/11 | "Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." - Lorraine Hansberry |
04/11/11 | "I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." - Rabindranath Tagore |
04/12/11 | "A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless." - May Sarton |
04/13/11 | "Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson |
04/14/11 | "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
04/15/11 | "The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Lady Dorothy Nevill |
04/16/11 | "Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?" - Laurence J. Peter |
04/17/11 | "The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best -- and therefore never scrutinize or question." - Stephen Jay Gould |
04/18/11 | "There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world." - Lady Marguerite Gardiner |
04/19/11 | "Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is." - Nadine Gordimer |
04/20/11 | "Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound." - James Allen |
04/21/11 | "You miss 100% of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky |
04/22/11 | "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." - Lou Holtz |
04/23/11 | "The inability to forget is infinitely more devastating than the inability to remember," - Mark Twain |
04/24/11 | "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." - Rene Descartes |
04/25/11 | "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley |
04/26/11 | "It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." - Joseph Joubert |
04/27/11 | "If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out." - Rabindranath Tagore |
04/28/11 | "Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware." - Anne Lamott |
04/29/11 | "When we lose the right to be different, we lose the right to be free." - Charles Evans Hughes |
04/30/11 | "Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer |
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