Category Archives: Thought For the Day

Thought For the Day: The Heart of A Father Is the Masterpiece of Nature

Posted on June 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.” – Antoine François Prévost d’Exiles, Manon Lescaut        

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Thought For the Day: The Longest Day Must Have Its Close

Posted on June 14, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Out of Love and the Quarrel With Ourselves, We Make Poetry

Posted on June 13, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.” – William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (13 Jun 1865-1939)    

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Thought For the Day: Focus On Your Ideals and Believe That People Are Good At Heart

Posted on June 12, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” – Anne Frank, Holocaust diarist (12 Jun 1929-1945)    

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Thought For the Day: Be The First To Apologize, Forgive and Forget and Be the Best

Posted on June 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“The first to apologize is the bravest.  The first to forgive is the strongest.  And the first to forget is the happiest…  True story.” – Anonymous    

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Thought For the Day: Nothing About A Caterpillar Tells You It Will One Day Be A Butterfly

Posted on June 10, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

” There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” – Buckminster Fuller    

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Thought For the Day: Hearts, Away From Nature, Becomes Hard

Posted on June 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Wherever forests have not been mowed down, wherever the animal is recessed in their quiet protection, wherever the earth is not bereft of four-footed life – that to the white man is an ‘unbroken wilderness.’ But for us there was … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: In the Attitude of Silence the Soul Finds the Path In A Clearer Light

Posted on June 8, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal-clearness.” – Mahatma Gandhi    

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Thought For the Day: Poetry Is the Shadow Cast By Our Streetlight Imaginations

Posted on June 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.” – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and painter (b. 24 Mar 1919)    

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In Memory of D-Day

Posted on June 6, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

God bless those who lived and died for liberty all those many years ago.  Peace is that better place we would all prefer to live.  Dying is the price some are willing to pay so that others might have that … Continue reading →

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