Category Archives: Thought For the Day

Thought For the Day: Silence Can Be An Acceptable Response

“To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.” – Colette, author (28 Jan 1873-1954)        

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Thought For the Day: Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Nature Is A Endless Song of One Beautiful Form Into Another

“Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.” – John Muir, Naturalist … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Art Is the Elimination of the Unnecessary

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” – Pablo Picasso, painter, and sculptor (1881-1973)      

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Thought For the Day: Share Your Knowledge So That Others May Illuminate Their Lives

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” – Margaret Fuller, author (23 May 1810-1850)          

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Thought For the Day: Arms Are For Hugs, Not Killing

“I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging.” – Betty Williams, peace activist, Nobel laureate (b. 22 May 1943)      

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Thought For the Day: Blessed Are They Who See Beauty In Humble Places

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” — Camille Pissarro              

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Thought For the Day: A Person May Harm Others Equally Through Action Or Inaction and Is Just As Culpable For Injury

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.” – John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (20 May 1806-1873)   … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Forget the Days, Remember the Moments

“People forget years and remember moments.” – Ann Beattie, novelist (b. 8 Sep 1947)      

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Aloha Promises Forever Salutes National Police Week

These folks put themselves on the line for us every second of every day of their careers for us.  To many of them fall in the line of duty.  It seems the least we can do to show them a … Continue reading

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