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THOUGHT OF THE DAY
12/1/22
"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."
12/2/22
"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it." - Eleanor Roosevelt
12/3/22
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." - Simone de Beauvoir
12/4/22
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" - Lord Acton from The Sewanee Review. United States, University of the South, 1892.
12/5/22
"With the benefit of historical hindsight, we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all." - Elizabeth II
12/6/22
"One filled with joy preaches without preaching." - Mother Teresa
12/7/22
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" - Lord Acton from The Sewanee Review. United States, University of the South, 1892.
12/8/22
"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product." - Eleanor Roosevelt
12/9/22
"Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life." - Rumi
12/10/22
"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion." - Rumi
12/11/22
"Wise men make more opportunities than they find." - Francis Bacon
12/12/22
"Poetry is as exact a science as geometry". - Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
from Letters of Gustave Flaubert (1951), p.81.
12/13/22
"Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there." - Rumi
12/14/22
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention." - Oscar Wilde
12/15/22
"Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel." - Author Unknown
12/16/22
"When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." - John F. Kennedy
12/17/22
"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
12/18/22
"Perhaps a man's character is like a tree and his reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." - Abraham Lincoln
12/19/22
"It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man." - Michelangelo
12/20/22
"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
12/21/22
"I attribute my success to this — I never gave or took any excuse." - Florence Nightingale
12/22/22
"It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
12/23/22
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
12/24/22
"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best." - St. Jerome
12/25/22
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
12/26/22
"Don't count the days, make the days count." - Muhammad Ali
12/27/22
"If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small." - Proverbs xxiv. 10.
12/28/22
"Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien. The best is the enemy of the good." - Voltaire, from Contes, 1772, 'La Begueule', originally derived from an Italian proverb quoted in Voltaire’s Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1770, 'Art Dramatique': 'Le megilo e l’inimico del bene'.
12/29/22
"Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?" - Shan Sa from The Girl Who Played Go: A Novel, 2007. P.203.
12/30/22
"It takes a wise man to discover a wise man." - Xenophanes quoted by Diogenes Laertius in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, 1915. P.384.
12/31/22
"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Sir Isaac Newton from Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, Volume 2, 1855. P.407.
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