12/31/18

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. -Judy Garland

12/28/18

Another definition of hero is someone who is concerned about other people’s well-being, and will go out of his or her way to help them--even if there is no chance of reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero. -Stan Lee

12/27/18

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. -Eminem

12/26/18

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. -Frederick Douglass

12/25/18

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. -Norman Vincent Peale

12/24/18

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store. -Dr. Seuss

12/21/18

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. -Marlene Dietrich

12/20/18

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead. -Bette Davis

12/19/18

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person. -Hillary Clinton

12/18/18

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. -Joseph Campbell

12/17/15

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, "What a jerk!" It takes courage in our culture to be a lover. -Leo Buscaglia

12/14/18

Ask anyone who's successful how they got there, you're going to hear a different story. -Carol Burnett

12/13/18

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. -Buddha

12/12/18

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

12/11/18

Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. -Menachem Begin

12/10/18

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. -Saint Basil

12/07/13

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. -Ann Voskamp

12/06/18

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. -Peter Ustinov

12/05/18

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. -Leo Tolstoy

12/04/18

It is poor traveling that is only to arrive, and it is poor reading that is only to find out how the book ends. -Arthur W. Colton

12/03/18

Any book could be a self help book if you read it right. -Roxanna Elden

11/30/18

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. -Albert Schweitzer

11/29/18

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. -Jules Renard

11/28/18

Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are? -Laurence J. Peter

11/27/18

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -Friedrich Nietzsche

11/26/18

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you  yourself have altered. -Nelson Mandela

11/23/18

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. -R.D. Laing

11/22/18

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. -John F. Kennedy

11/21/18

The more original the discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward. -Arthur Koestler

11/20/18

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. -Thomas Jefferson

11/19/18

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. -Eugène Ionesco

11/16/18

The only thing that happens overnight is recognition, not talent. -Carol Haney

11/15/18

Said a hunted fox followed by twenty horsemen and a pack of twenty hounds, "Of course they will kill me. But how poor and how stupid they must be. Surely it would not be worthwhile for twenty foxes riding on twenty asses and accompanied by twenty wolves to chase and kill one man." -Khalil Gibran

11/14/18

We can often do more for others by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs. -François Fénelon

11/13/18

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. -Thomas Alva Edison

11/12/18

Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -Douglas MacArthur

11/09/18

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens,  but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. -Walt Disney

11/08/18

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. -Albert Camus

11/07/18

They say they climb mountains because they are there. I wonder if it would astound them to know that the very same reason is why the rest of us go around them. -S. Omar Barker

11/06/18

Education is the best provision for old age. -Aristotle

11/02/18

Nothing will work unless you do. -Maya Angelou

11/01/18

Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless. -Lech Wałęsa

10/31/18

I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks. -R. J. Palacio

10/30/18

How heavy is that day in the mountains when you built a campfire and saw a shooting star? What is the mass of yesterday? How fast is love? -John Varley

10/29/18

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam. -John Updike

10/26/18

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art. -Twyla Tharp

10/25/18

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns. -George Santayana

10/24/18

I'd like to widen people's awareness of the tremendous timespan lying ahead -- for our planet, and for life itself. Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. Six billion years from now, it will not be humans who watch the sun's demise. Any creatures that then exists will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae. -Martin Rees

10/23/18

We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us. -Quintilian

10/22/18

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. -Blaise Pascal

10/19/18

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. -Joyce Carol Oates

10/18/18

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. -Vladimir Nabokov

10/17/18

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. -Ross Macdonald

10/16/18

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important. -Madeleine L'Engle

10/15/18

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.-Margo Kaufman

10/12/18

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. -Japanese Proverb

10/11/18

If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions. -Robert G. Ingersoll

10/10/18

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. -Dag Hammarskjold

10/09/18

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. -James Garfield

10/08/18

Winning might not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it. -Dianne Feinstein

10/05/18

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. -Thomas Alva Edison

10/04/18

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. -Charles Dickens

10/03/18

When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why people are hungry, they call me a communist. -Dom Helder Camara

10/02/18

Commandment Number One for any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different. -Ray Stannard Baker

10/01/18

Even a slow walker will arrive. -African Proverb

09/28/18

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. -Edmund Burke

09/27/18

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. -E.L. Doctorow

09/26/18

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. -Anatole France

09/25/18

It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. -Molière

09/24/18

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius

09/21/18

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. -Leo Tolstoy

09/20/18

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. -Thomas Paine

09/19/18

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working. -Frank Lloyd Wright 

09/18/18

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. -Norman Cousins

09/17/18

It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be--even if it isn't what you expected. -Jim Butcher

09/14/18

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. -Samuel Johnson

09/13/18

One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter -- who was a child at the time--asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!" -Louis L'Amour

09/12/18

Any clod can have the facts, but having an opinion is an art. -Charles McCabe

09/11/18

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir

09/10/18

The expert at anything was once a beginner. -Rutherford B. Hayes

09/07/18

It's only awkward if it matters. -Joyce Rachelle

09/06/18

I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue. -Pat Frayne

09/05/18

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. -Mae West

09/04/18

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible. -Norton Juster

09/03/18

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. -Thomas Jefferson

08/31/18

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. -Abraham Joshua Heschel

08/30/18

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. -Thornton Wilder

08/29/18

One thought driven home is better than three left on base. -James Liter

08/28/18

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. -Arthur Koestler

08/27/18

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -Thomas Carruthers

08/24/18

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

08/23/18

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. -T.S. Eliot

08/22/18

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't but you did what you could. -Chris Crutcher

08/17/18

It takes grace to stop working and go to bed. When in bed, more grace is needed to rise up and begin work again. 
-Lailah Gifty Akita