11/29/19

Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you. -Rick Yancey

11/28/19

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage. For in the very nature of things, success tends to create pride and blindness in the hearts of men, while suffering teaches them to be patient and strong. -Xenophon

11/27/19

A lexicographer's business is solely to collect, arrange, and define the words that usage presents to his hands. He has no right to proscribe words; he is to present them as they are. -Noah Webster

11/26/19

What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives. -J.D. Vance

11/25/19

I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness. -Brenda Ueland

11/22/19

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found. -Tzvetan Todorov

11/21/19

The best theology is probably no theology; just love one another. -Charles M. Schulz

11/20/19

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system. -Ann Richards

11/19/19

Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle. -Matthew Quick

11/18/19

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms. -Ron Paul

11/15/19

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed. -Mary Oliver

11/14/19

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. -Ogden Nash

11/13/19

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. -Mignon McLaughlin

11/12/19

There must always be those with the fire of rebellion in their blood! There must always be those who will dare to fight an unbeatable enemy! Only thus can the race of man remain strong and fearless! -Stan Lee

11/11/19

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view. -Paul Klee

11/08/19

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. -Jerome K. Jerome

11/07/19

You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair. -Eva Ibbotson

11/06/19

Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is. -Sydney J. Harris

11/05/19

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. -Larry Gelbart

11/04/19

[N]o one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the "expert" state of mind a great number of things become impossible. -Henry Ford

11/01/19

The ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. -Mohamed El Baradei