Category Archives: Thought For the Day

Thought For the Day: Our Goal Should Be To Live Life In Radical Amazement…Get Up In the Morning and Look At the World In A Way That Takes Nothing For Granted

Posted on April 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement…get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Thought For the Day: If Life’s Lessons Could Be Reduced To Single Sentences, There Would Be No Need For Fiction

Posted on April 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“If life’s lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.” -Scott Turow, author and lawyer (b. 12 Apr 1949)

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Thought For the Day: A Cynical, Mercenary, Demagogic Press Will Produce In Time A People As Base As Itself. The Power To Mould the Future of the Republic Will Be In the Hands of the Journalists of Future Generations

Posted on April 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: I Love You Without Knowing How, Or When, Or From Where. I Love You Simply, Without Problems Or Pride

Posted on April 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Everything Considered, Work Is Less Boring Than Amusing Oneself

Posted on April 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. “– Charles Baudelaire, poet, critic, and translator (9 Apr 1821-1867)

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Thought For the Day: O Dark, Dark, Dark, Amid the Blaze of Moon, Irrecoverably Dark, Total Eclipse Without All Hope of Day!

Posted on April 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!” – John Milton

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Thought For the Day: Every Man Is A Volume If You Know How To Read Him

Posted on April 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.” -William Ellery Channing, clergyman and writer (7 Apr 1780-1842)

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Thought For the Day: Still Round the Corner There May Wait, A New Road Or A Secret Gate

Posted on April 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Still round the corner there may wait, / a new road or a secret gate.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, novelist and philologist (3 Jan 1892-1973)

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Thought For the Day: There Are Two Ways of Exerting One’s Strength: One Is Pushing Down, the Other Is Pulling up

Posted on April 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.” – Booker T. Washington, reformer, educator, and author (5 Apr 1856-1915)

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Thought For the Day: I’ve Learned That You Shouldn’t Go Through Life With A Catcher’s Mitt On Both Hands. You Need To Be Able To Throw Something Back

Posted on April 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.” – Maya Angelou, poet (4 Apr 1928-2014)

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