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Thought For the Day: A Real Friend Knows You Instantly
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” – Richard Bach, in Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977) The text of this work is … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: The Strong Must Be Just
“Justice without force is impotent. Force without justice is tyranny. Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.” —Blaise Pascal (1623- 1662) And so it is as it must be, we must be both … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Nothing Is Impossible
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, “I’m possible.” – Audrey Hepburn
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Thought For the Day: Do Not Wait For Perfection To Follow Your Heart
“Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.” – Cardinal John Henry Newman One of the concerns faced by many this day is … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Honor Excellence
“We must learn to honor excellence in every socially accepted human activity, however humble the activity, and to scorn shoddiness, however exalted the activity. An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Happiness Is the Best Cosmetic To Bring Out Beauty
“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.” – Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, in Desultory Thoughts and Reflections (1839), p. 90. There’s a lot of truth in this statement. Also a lot of truth in the statement received from … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Guns Don’t Kill; People Do
“Evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.” — Thomas Jefferson (1791) I’ve been looking for a quippable quote off and on all morning that would suffice to sum up the disgust I have … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Happiness Is In the Mastery of Hardships
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.” – Helen Keller Using her own life as an example, Helen Keller, showed the world how to master hardships that knock down so many others. Her … Continue reading
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Thought For The Day: Stand Your Ground
“Well I know what’s right, I got just one life In a world that keeps on pushin’ me around But I’ll stand my ground And I won’t back down.” – Tom Petty, in I Won’t Back Down R.I.P. Thomas Earl Petty … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Be You
“If I try to be like him, who will be like me?” – Yiddish proverb There’s an open secret in life. If you listen very closely, you can hear it. Be you, says the wind, the rain, the sun and … Continue reading
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