Flickr Photos
Tag Archives: Thought For the Day
Thought For the Day: Painting Is Poetry
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci There is a lot to be said for the beauty of God’s creation. If anyone were to … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Art, Feelings, Leonardo da Vinci, Painting, Poetry, Seen, Thought For the Day, Verse
Leave a comment
Thought For The Day: Free Society Resists Interference With Others
“A society is free when its members resist the tendency to interfere by force with the lives of others. In this kind of society, justice is established as each person is given his clue and no man has a politically … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: All Life Is Sacred and Inalienable
“We hold these truths to be self-evident . . . that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, and among these life . . .” ~ Declaration of Independence After struggling with what to say exactly about … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Charlie Gard, Endowed, Ethics, Inalienable, Life, Sacred, Self-Evident, Thought For the Day, Truth
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: Free Thought Protects Against the Rise of Dictatorship
“Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorships.” —Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989) Andrei D. Sakharov was the Russian designer … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Advocate, Andrei Sakharov, Civil Liberty, Dictatorship, Free Speech, Free Thought, Freedom, Nobel Prize, Nuclear, Protect, Thought For the Day
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: The Greatest Pain Is To Love In Vain
“A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.” – Abraham Crowley
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Abraham Crowley, English, Love, Pain, Poet, Thought For the Day, Unrequitted
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: Lead By Example
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Albert Schweitzer, Example, Influence, Lead, Teach, Thought For the Day
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: Discerning Truth Requires Experience
“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.” – John Stuart Mill Without experience it is difficult to discern full truth. If you sit a moment and think on … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Discernment, Experience, John S Mill, Meaning, Personal, Thought For the Day, Truths
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: Being Your Own Person Is Hard But Worth It
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Individual, Price, Privilege, Rudyard Kipling, Self, Thought For the Day, Tribe
Leave a comment
Thought of the Day: Happiness Is the Key
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Fundamental, Goals, Happiness, John Lennon, Key, Life, Misunderstanding, School, Thought For the Day
Leave a comment
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Odyssey – Homer
Today, we turn our attention to one of the two major Greek epic poems that have been attributed in whole or in part to a blind poet who may or may not have ever lived and who may have been … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Ancient Greece, Cyclops, Epic, Harvard Classics, Homer, Penelope, Poetry, Telemachus, The Odyssey, Thought For the Day, Troy
Leave a comment
