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Thought-of-the-Day
August 2015 Archive

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
08/01/15"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." - Mark Twain
08/02/15"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble." - Mahatma Gandhi
08/03/15"Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." - Elie Wiesel
08/04/15"The awareness of our own strength makes us modest." - Paul Cezanne
08/05/15"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." - Charlotte Brontë aka: Charlotte Bronte
08/06/15"You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by." - Nicholas Sparks
08/07/15"Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow." - Wil Wheaton
08/08/15"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." - Theodore Vail
08/09/15"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." - Jorge Luis Borges
08/10/15"It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time." - Barbara Kingsolver
08/11/15"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be." - Daniel Boorstin
08/12/15"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
08/13/15"The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those around him that he knows." - Clarence Randall
08/14/15"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." - Albert Einstein
08/15/15"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star." - Friedrich Nietzsche
08/16/15"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." - E.E. Cummings
08/17/15"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
08/18/15"If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: Never lie to yourself." - Paulo Coelho
08/19/15"Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way." - Alice Childress
08/20/15"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something." - Plato
08/21/15"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
08/22/15"I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything." - Santosh Kalwar
08/23/15"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anais Nin
08/24/15"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." - Elie Wiesel
08/25/15"Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest." - Hermann Hesse
08/26/15"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind." - Henry James
08/27/15"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
08/28/15"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness." - Bertrand Russell
08/29/15"Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world." - Lao Tzu
08/30/15"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." - Benjamin Spock
08/31/15"Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness." - Pearl S. Buck


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