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

SEP 2022


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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY
9/1/22      "Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations." - Steve Jobs
9/2/22      "Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks." - Warren Buffett
9/3/22      "A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them." - Nelson Mandela
9/4/22      "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton, ​from VESALIUS IN ZANTE (1564) in North American Review (November 1902), p. 631
9/5/22      "A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself." - Alexander Graham Bell
9/6/22      "All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it." - Mozart
9/7/22      "I could never work for money, but I would always work for science." - Louis Pasteur
9/8/22      "Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly." - George Washington
9/9/22      "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
9/10/22      "Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design." - Oprah Winfrey
9/11/22      "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
9/12/22      "Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another." - Desmond Tutu
9/13/22      "The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts... everything we do, we do for the young." - Queen Elizabeth II
9/14/22      "The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
9/15/22      "Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of." - Nelson Mandela
9/16/22      "The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others." - Robert Baden-Powell
9/17/22      The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. - Marcus Aurelius (Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical, 1917)
9/18/22      "Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully" - Oprah Winfrey
9/21/22      "One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution. Education first." - Malala Yousafzai
9/22/22      "For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well." - George Washington
9/23/22      "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." - Auguste Rodin
9/24/22      "If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner." - Nelson Mandela
9/25/22      "Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events." - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
9/26/22      "Dumbledore: It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - J.K. Rowlings
9/27/22      "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." - Bill Gates
9/28/22      "Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future." - John F. Kennedy
9/29/22      "It’s ok to not be ok." - Michael Phelps from Michael Phelps Foundation
9/30/22      "My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind" - Thomas Jefferson


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