11/20/15

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times. -Patrick Rothfuss

11/19/15

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

11/18/15

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. -Eden Phillpotts

11/17/15

I have failed many times, and that is why I am a success. -Michael Jordan

11/16/15

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. -Isaac Asimov

10/30/15

Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative. -Judy Gold

10/29/15

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. -Bertrand Russell

10/28/15

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France

10/27/15

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment--and nothing more corrupting. -A.J.P. Taylor

10/26/15

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? -George Eliot

10/23/15

That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started. -Barack Obama

10/22/15

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice. -Jim Butcher

10/21/15

Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon. -Paul Brandt

10/20/15

What worries you, masters you. -John Locke

10/19/15

The world is changed by your example, not your opinion. -Paulo Coelho

10/16/15

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. -Linus Pauling

10/15/15

There are two reasons for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. -Bertrand Russell

10/14/15

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and the unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. -Gordan Parks

10/13/15

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives. -Neil deGrasse Tyson

10/12/15

Each of us bears a responsibility to reject hate, whatever its form, whatever its justification. A soul filled with hate can devastate a community, A nation filled with hate can devastate a people. It must start and end with each of us. -George Takei

10/09/15

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened. -Spider Robinson

10/08/15

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. -Nikola Tesla

10/07/15

I used to not be able to work if there were dishes in the sink. Then I had a child and now I can work if there is a corpse in the sink. -Anne Lamott

10/06/15

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice. -Jim Butcher

10/05/15

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. -Albert Camus

10/02/15

If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product. -Jonathan Zittrain

10/01/15

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish. -Robert H. Jackson

09/30/15

No cow's like a horse, and no horse like a cow. That's one similarity, anyhow. -Piet Hein

09/29/15

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle

09/28/15

You aren't meant to be indestructible. You're meant to build a better self using what you can salvage from every time you've been destroyed. -Shane Koyczan

09/25/15

We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours. -James M. Barrie

09/24/15

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life. -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

09/23/15

You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism. -Barack Obama

09/22/15

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers. -Patrick Rothfuss

09/21/15

Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. -Robert A. Heinlein

09/11/15

It’s really easy to complain. If you’re not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good. -Lisa Williams

09/10/15

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. -Patrick Rothfuss

09/09/15

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge. -Jim Butcher

09/08/15

If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you'll end up not doing anything for anybody. -Malcolm Bane

09/07/15

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it. -Abraham Lincoln

09/04/15

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom. -William James

09/03/15

All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles. -Voltaire

09/02/15

Poetry breaks through the skin of suffering in which children are often imprisoned: silent, confused, scared.  A child's poetry is an intimate, trusting gift to her parent or to anyone who wishes to "read" her heart. -Alice Walker

09/01/15

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. -Albert Schweitzer

08/31/15

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain. -Eckhart Tolle

08/28/15

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all. -Michelangelo Buonarroti

08/27/15

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. -Jonathan Swift

08/26/15

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. -Greek proverb

08/25/15

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation. -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

08/24/15

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

08/21/15

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. -Michael J. Gelb

08/20/15

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake--or to take no action and die slowly anyway? -Ahdaf Soueif 

08/19/15

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. -Criss Jami

08/18/15

Feelings are something you have; not something you are. -Shannon L. Alder

08/17/15

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else. -K.L. Toth 

06/05/15

A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. -Bennett Cerf

06/04/15

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

06/03/15

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. -Stewart Udall

06/02/15

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. -Laurence Sterne

06/01/15

If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. - Heraclitus

05/29/15

Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you’ll have left is your character. -Vince Gill

05/28/15

If you can forgive and move on with your life, you can find peace. You must learn how to forgive, not only other people, but also yourself. -Tyler Perry

05/27/15

We all have ability.  The difference is how we use it. -Stevie Wonder

05/26/15

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. -Bill Clinton

05/15/15

Don't let your habits become handcuffs. -Elizabeth Berg

05/14/15

Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time. -Sue Monk Kidd

05/13/15

You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. -William S. Burroughs

05/12/15

A year from now you may wish you had started today. -Karen Lamb

05/11/15

Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we take on giants, we too often confuse failure with fault, which I know too well. The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation into humility, to strive always to triumph over the darkness while never forgetting that the honor and the beauty are more in the striving than in the winning. When triumph at last comes, our efforts alone could not have won the day without that grace which surpasses all understanding and which will, if we allow it, imbue our lives with meaning. -Dean Koontz

05/08/15

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. -Lee Iacocca

05/07/15

Remember, if this is your world, you're one of them, a teenager. You live in two worlds... In any classroom, something is always happening. They keep you on your toes. They keep you fresh. You'll never grow old, but the danger is you might have the mind of an adolescent forever. -Frank McCourt

05/06/15

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. -Jim Rohn

05/05/15

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. -John Steinbeck

05/04/15

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.-Lily Tomlin

05/01/15

Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently. -Shane Koyczan

04/30/15

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. -Jane Yolen

04/29/15

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams. -H.P. Lovecraft

04/28/15

Pain isn’t a lot of fun, at least not for most folks, but it is utterly unique to life. Pain — physical, emotional, and otherwise — is the shadow cast by everything you want out of life, the alternative to the result you were hoping for, and the inevitable creator of strength. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before. Pain is there to tell us when we’ve done something badly—it’s a teacher, a guide, one that is always there to both warn us of our limitations and challenge us to overcome them.

For something no one likes, pain does us a whole hell of a lot of good. -Jim Butcher

04/27/15

If you travel too fast, all you're gonna see is a blur and you'll never really meet anyone interesting. -Fábio Moon

04/24/15

The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. -William Makepeace Thackeray

04/23/15

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. -Helen Keller

04/22/15

What is to give light must endure burning. -Viktor E. Frankl

04/21/15

The plan may be useless, but the planning process is invaluable. -Dwight D. Eisenhower

04/20/15

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. -Albert Einstein

04/17/15

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. -Franz Kafka

04/16/15

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. -George Washington Carver

04/15/15

A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. -Herm Albright

04/14/15

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey

04/13/15

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. -Albert Schweitzer

04/10/15

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. -James Thurber

04/09/15

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. -Voltaire

04/08/15

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. -Carl Sagan

04/07/15

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. -Alice Walker

04/06/15

It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. -William Carlos Williams

04/03/15

Laughter is the closest distance between two people. -Victor Borge

04/02/15

Don't be kind of bold.  Be bold. -William Zinsser

04/01/15

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. - Abraham Lincoln

03/27/15

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. -Daniel J. Boorstin

03/26/15

I believe you have to be true to people. You have to be writing something that people understand but, at the same time, something that's profound enough to have meaning past, say, the six o'clock news. -Amiri Baraka

03/25/15

Fiction is not a dream.  Nor is it guesswork.  It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up. -Margaret Banning

03/24/15

Reading, I'd been taught, means questioning, sensing that what you read is unfinished until completed in the self. The first text is the soul. And the last.  -Sherman Alexie

03/20/15

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. -Edward Abbey

03/19/15

As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. -Amy Poehler

03/17/15

If you're an original thinker, you are going get told "no" a lot, and you have to be able to hear "no" many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda. -Nick Offerman

03/13/15

Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect. -Blaise Pascal

03/11/15

How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself. -Kenneth Tynan

03/10/15

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up. -Stephen Hawking

03/09/15

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books. -Roald Dahl

03/06/15

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. -Leo Buscaglia

03/05/15

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

03/04/15

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. -William Butler Yeats

03/03/15

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same. -Viktor E. Frankl