Category Archives: Thought For the Day

Thought For the Day: Work Is the Greatest Pancea

“The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic — in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea — known to medical science is work.” – Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (15 Apr 1920-2012) … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: The Truest Beauty of A Woman Shines From the Inside Out

“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” – Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (27 Apr 1759-1797)    

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Thought For the Day: Words Are Skins of Living Thoughts Subject To Change

“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.”  – Oliver Wendell … Continue reading

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Thought For The Day: To Be A Writer, You Must Read and Write A Lot

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.” – Stephen King Personally, if … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: It Takes Courage To Grow Into Who You Really Are

“It takes courage to grow up and be who you really are. “ — e.e. cummings        

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Thought For the Day: Strive To Do The Things You Think You Cannot Do

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt    

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Thought For the Day: Learning Is Light Enough To Carry With You Always

“Learning is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.” – Chinese proverb    

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Thought For the Day: Nature Has Given Man Into Woman’s Hands

“Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman’s entire but decisive advantage. Through man’s passions, nature has given man into woman’s hands…” – Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch Nevermind how this guy meant this.  It … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: This Is No Dress Rehearsal – Enjoy Life!

“Enjoy Life.  This is not a dress rehearsal.” –– Author Unknown I am so stealing that “little wags of wisdom” in some form for part of a future poem….    

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Thought For the Day: Illiberalism Breeds the Conditions Ripe For Mob Rule

“The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women — of all classes — detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion — mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob … Continue reading

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