Tag Archives: Thought For the Day

Thought For the Day: Courage Is the Greatest of All Virtues, Because If You Haven’t Courage, You May Not Have An Opportunity To Use Any of the Others

Posted on September 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.” – Samuel Johnson

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Thought For the Day: The Most Important Scientific Revolutions All Include, As Their Only Common Feature, the Dethronement of Human Arrogance

Posted on September 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance.” -Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist, biologist, author (10 Sep 1941-2002)

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Thought For the Day: I Cannot Think of Any Need In Childhood As Strong As the Need For a Father’s Protection

Posted on September 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” – Sigmund Freud

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Thought For the Day: The Most Reliable Way To Predict the Future Is To Create It

Posted on September 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

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Thought For the Day: When One Person Is Missing the Whole World Seems Empty

Posted on September 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.” – Pat Schweibert, Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss

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Thought For the Day: Not What We Experience, But How We Perceive What We Experience, Determines Our Fate

Posted on September 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.” – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Thought For the Day: There Is No Greatness Where There Is Not Simplicity, Goodness, and Truth

Posted on September 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth”. – Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (9 Sep 1828-1910)

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Thought For the Day: Yours Is the Light By Which My Spirit’s Born: – You Are My Sun, My Moon, and All My Stars

Posted on September 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: — you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” – E.E. Cummings

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Thought For the Day: Man Is the Only Animal That Blushes – Or Needs To

Posted on September 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Man is the only animal that blushes—or needs to.” – Mark Twain (November 1933)

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Thought For the Day: It Is During Our Darkest Moments That We Must Focus To See the Light

Posted on September 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle

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