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THOUGHT-OF-THE-DAY ARCHIVE
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
- Marcus Aurelius

JAN 2022


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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
1/1/22      "All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
1/2/22      "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all." - Emily Dickinson
1/3/22      "A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."
1/4/22      "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." - Bertrand Russell
1/5/22      "There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words." - Thomas Reid
1/6/22      "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." - Bertrand Russell
1/7/22      "Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you." - Diana, Princess of Wales
1/8/22      "It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder." - Joseph Wood Krutch
1/9/22      "I attribute my success to this — I never gave or took any excuse." - Florence Nightingale
1/10/22      "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus
1/11/22      "He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others." - Leo Tolstoy
1/12/22      "Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy." - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
1/13/22      "Peace in every home, every street, every village, every country - this is my dream—education for every boy and every girl in the world. To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human being with a smile of happiness is my wish." - Malala Yousafzai
1/14/22      "The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give." - Oprah Winfrey
1/15/22      "Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
1/16/22      "Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object." - Thomas Jefferson
1/17/22      "One doesn't recognize in one's life the really important moments — not until it's too late." - Agatha Christie
1/18/22      "I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right." - Malala Yousafzai
1/19/22      "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
1/20/22      "It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science." - Marie Curie
1/21/22      "Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen." - John F. Kennedy
1/22/22      "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." - Mother Teresa
1/23/22      "Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are." - Muhammad Ali
1/24/22      "To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
1/25/22      "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition." - Adam Smith
1/26/22      "Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
1/27/22      "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela
1/28/22      "Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." - Sigmund Freud
1/29/22      "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein
1/30/22      "Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope." - Epictetus
1/31/22      "Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good." - Bertolt Brecht


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2012
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2011
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2010
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2009
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2008
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2007
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2006
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2005
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