Daily/Weekly Thoughts

"People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering."
 
~ St Augustine

"Know thyself."
 
~ Socrates

"Everybody is somebody because God has created us with unique skills and abilities." "Too many folks fall into the shameful pattern of ranking people and judging some as nobodies."
 
~ Anonymous

"I shall be telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I � I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference."
 
~ Robert Frost

"A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there."
 
~ David Gergen

"Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them."
 
~ Albert Camus, Philosopher

". . . To give and not to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds, to toil and not to seek for rest, to labor and not to ask for reward."
 
~ St. Ignatius de Loyola (Founder, Society of Jesus)

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
 
~ David O. McKay

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
 
~ Mark Twain

"A child will learn by what a father is and what he does far more than by what he is told."
 
~ Unknown

"Information is the currency of democracy"
 
~ Thomas Jefferson

"No great idea was ever born in a conference."
 
~ F Scott Fitzgerald

"It is not enough to be busy. The question is: "What are you busy about?"
 
~ Henry David Thoreau

"It is part of the cure to wish to be cured"
 
~ Seneca

"There are only two infinite things: the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure some days about the universe."
 
~ Albert Einstein

"Apologizing for your mistakes is a sign of maturity and strength. Learning from your mistakes is a sign of true wisdom."
 
~ Vernon Coleman

"History is not happened, it is what you can remember."
 
~ W.C. Sellar

"In youth we tend to look forward; in old age we tend to look back; in mid-life we tend to just look worried."
 
~ Anonymous

"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."
 
~ Clarence Darrow

"Its too bad that all the people who know how to the run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."
 
~ George Burns

"A person who is pulling their own weight never has time to throw it around."
 
~ Peggy J. Rudd

"History's saddest lesson is that very few people really learn from history."
 
~ Robert Beckman

"Do not forget those who fought battles for you, and bought your freedom with their genius and their blood."
 
~ Emile Zola

"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian."
 
~ Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan

"It's been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
 
~ Abraham Lincoln

"What does not kill me makes me stronger."
 
~ Frederich Nietzsche

"If you must slander someone, don't speak it, but write it. Write it in the sand, near the water's edge."
 
~ Napoleon Hill

"Governments change, but the lies stay the same."
 
~ Anonymous

"The best man for the job is often a woman."
 
~ Anonymous

"Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work of evildoers in the world."
 
~ Bertrand Russell

"One soul inhabiting two bodies."
 
~ Aristotle, on the meaning of friendship

"You cannot control the length of your life but you can control its width and depth."
 
~ Tom Anderson

"Enjoy Life."
 
~ Margaret Mitchell

"Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect."
 
~ Margaret Mitchell

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
 
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."
 
~ Mother Teresa

"The best way to avoid criticism is to keep quiet and do nothing. But what sort of life is that?"
 
~ Vernon Coleman

"I've had a wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."
 
~ Groucho Marx

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