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Thought-of-the-Day
May 2015 Archive

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05/01/15"I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff." - Jon Katz
05/02/15"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
05/03/15"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will." - Chuck Palahniuk
05/04/15"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book." - Jane Smiley
05/05/15"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." - Albert Einstein
05/06/15"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Winston Churchill
05/07/15"But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands." - Daphne du Maurier
05/08/15"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are." - Niccolo Machiavelli
05/09/15"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan
05/10/15"My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her." - Jodi Picoult
05/11/15"I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other." - Stephen Chbosky
05/12/15"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action." - James Russell Lowell
05/13/15"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." - Marilyn vos Savant
05/14/15"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt
05/15/15"If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present." - Lao Tzu
05/16/15"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford
05/17/15"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." - Mark Twain
05/18/15"When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Arthur Conan Doyle
05/19/15"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you." - Mortimer J. Adler
05/20/15"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
05/21/15"Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being." - Albert Schweitzer
05/22/15"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." - Mahatma Gandhi
05/23/15"No amount of belief makes something a fact." - James Randi
05/24/15"It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it." - Dale Carnegie
05/25/15"We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them." - Francis A. Walker
05/26/15"Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue." - Franklin Jones
05/27/15"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." - Cicero
05/28/15"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." - Maya Angelou
05/29/15"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." - Isaac Asimov
05/30/15"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville
05/31/15"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." - Confucius


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