Category Archives: Thought For the Day

Thought For the Day: The Heart of A Mother Is A Deep Abyss, At the Bottom of Which You Will Always Find Forgiveness

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss, at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” -Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850)

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Thought For the Day: The Place To Improve the World Is First In One’s Own Heart and Head and Hands, and Then Work Outward From There

“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.” – Robert Maynard Pirsig 

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Thought For the Day: The Mind, Once Stretched By A New Idea Never Returns To It’s Original Dimensions

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thought For the Day: The Purpose of Art Is To Lay Bare the Questions That Have Been Hidden By the Answers

“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.” – James Baldwin

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Thought For the Day: Defining Myself Is Like Confining Myself. So I Undefined Myself To Find Myself

“Defining myself is like confining myself. So I undefined myself to find myself.” – In-Q

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Thought For the Day: The Fingers of Your Thoughts Are Molding Your Face Ceaselessly

“The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.” -Charles Reznikoff, poet (31 Aug 1894-1976)

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Thought For the Day: What You Learn Today, For No Reason At All, Will Help You Discover All the Wonderful Secrets of Tomorrow

“What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.” – Norton Juster

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Thought For the Day: Many People Take No Care of Their Money Till They Come Nearly To the End of It, and Others Do Just the Same With Their Time

“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (28 Aug 1749-1832)

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Thought For the Day: Don’t You See That the Whole Aim of Newspeak Is To Narrow the Range of Thought?

“Don’t You See That the Whole Aim of Newspeak Is To Narrow the Range of Thought?” – George Orwell

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Thought For the Day: When You’re Traveling, You Are What You Are Right There and Then. People Don’t Have Your Past To Hold Against you. No Yesterdays On the Road

“When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat-Moon, travel writer (b. 27 Aug 1939)

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