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| DATE | THOUGHT OF THE DAY |
| 05/01/14 | "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." - Robert Frost |
| 05/02/14 | "No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing." - William Shakespeare |
| 05/03/14 | "It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action." - Al Batt |
| 05/04/14 | "A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone." - Saul Bellow |
| 05/05/14 | "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell |
| 05/06/14 | "Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone: - Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own." - Adam Lindsay Gordon |
| 05/07/14 | "Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - John Wooden |
| 05/08/14 | "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James |
| 05/09/14 | "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein |
| 05/10/14 | "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw |
| 05/11/14 | "There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it." - Chinese Proverb |
| 05/12/14 | "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 05/13/14 | "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel |
| 05/14/14 | "Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is." - Albert Camus |
| 05/15/14 | "A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one." - Rita Mae Brown |
| 05/16/14 | "Deliberation is the function of many; action is the function of one." - Charles de Gaulle |
| 05/17/14 | "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - Douglas Adams |
| 05/18/14 | "Life is an adventure in forgiveness." - Norman Cousins |
| 05/19/14 | "All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| 05/20/14 | "People change and forget to tell each other." - Lillian Hellman |
| 05/21/14 | "Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress." - Nicholas Murray Butler from Commencement Addresses (ed. 1951) |
| 05/22/14 | "Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it." - Rene Descartes |
| 05/23/14 | "Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one." - Robert E. Lee |
| 05/24/14 | "Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others." - H. Jackson Brown |
| 05/25/14 | "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." - Joseph Campbell from The Power of Myth |
| 05/26/14 | "The muffled drum's sad roll has beat the soldier's last tattoo. No more on Life's parade shall meet that brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground 5 their silent tents are spread, and Glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." - Theodore O'Hara |
| 05/27/14 | "You can delegate authority, but not responsibility." - Stephen W. Comiskey |
| 05/28/14 | "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat |
| 05/29/14 | "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." - Maya Angelou |
| 05/30/14 | "You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do." - Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 05/31/14 | "My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best." - Winston Churchill |
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