Thoughts for the Day 2005

 

"I have all the time in the world to worry about death when I am dead." - Leonard Reiss

"The future belongs to those who dare." – Anon

"Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely." – Anon

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin

"You are not what you think you are, you are not what they think you are, but you could be what you think they think you are." – Anon

"Ignorance does not necesarilly mean one has a lack of wisdom, for a most ignorant person can be one with much wisdom. It's "live and learn" that creates wisdom." - Austin Holmes

"The beginning is the most important part of the work." – Plato

"They are able because they think they are able." – Vergil

"We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting." - Karl Wallenda

"Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough." - Dinah Shore

"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done." – Anon

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work." - Richard Bach

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it." - William Osler

"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing." – Anon

"Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck." - Marian Erickson

"Never try to out-stubborn a cat." - Robert A. Heinlein (The Notebooks of Lazarus Long)

"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." - Chinese proverb

"Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it." - M. Scott Peck

"With love and patience, nothing is impossible." - Daisaku Iked

"Don't think, just do." - Reiko Horton

"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much." - Bessie Stanley

"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King, Jr

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." - Doug Horton

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." - Doris Lessing

"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few." - George Berkeley

"Kindness is loving people more than they deserve." - Joseph Joubert

"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Oliver's Law: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it." – Anon

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer

"When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." – Voltaire

"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." - Joe Ancis

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Ellen Parr

"In labouring to be brief, I become obscure." – Horace

"Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases." - Stephen Hawking

"If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius." - Larry Leissner

"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire

"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways." - Stephen Vincent Benét

"Every solution breeds new problems." - Anon

"Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already." - Søren Kierkegaard

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." - Jean de la Bruyère

"In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart." -Mahatma Gandhi

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm S. Forbes

"A fool must now and then be right by chance." - William Cowper

"Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said." - Anon

"The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. " - Jonas Salk

"Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven. " - Washington Irving

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison." - Victor Hugo

"Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads." - Nikolaus Lenau

"Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks." - Sioux Indian Prayer

"All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin." - Lord Byron

"A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society." - Frederick the Great

"The idea is to die young as late as possible." - Ashley Montagu

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready." - Henry David Thoreau

"Don't think, just do." - Reiko Horton

"Where there is peace and meditation there is neither anxiety nor doubt." - St Francis of Assisi

"Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes." - Scott Sheddan

"Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible." - Mao Tse-Tung

"Thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break your world by your thinking." - Susan L. Taylor

"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind." - Leonardo Da Vinci

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." - E. F. Schumacher

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth." - George Bernard Shaw

"Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it." - Anon

"To become a happy person, have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child's heart, and spiritual simplicity." - Norman Vincent Peale

"I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom." - Anatole France

"Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle." - Michelangelo

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know." - Mark Twain

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." - John Kenneth Galbraith

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." - Hugh Downs

"Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart." - Charles Caleb Colton

"It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air." - W.T. Ellis

"Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most." - Ruth Carter Stapleton

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