" THOUGHTS OF THE DAY"
" Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say, "I am doing no harm." I ought to be testing myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving."
--- Margot Asquith
" There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
--- Victor Hugo
" The world belongs to the energetic."
--- Emerson
"Wherever your challenges lead you, there is something to learn."
--- Author Unknown
"To exist is to change; to change is to mature; to mature is to create oneself endlessly."
--- Henri Bergson
"Waste no time debating what a good man should be. Be one."
--- Marcus Aurelius
"The confidence we have in others stems directly from our confidence in ourselves."
--- Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
"Doing your best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
--- Oprah Winfrey
"Words that do not match deeds are not important."
--- Che Guevara
"Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features."
--- Joseph Joubert
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
--- Seneca
"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible,
but also for what we do not do."
--- Moliere --- Submitted by Jaimie H. --- North Carolina
"Never deprive someone of their hope; it may be all they have."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Stasia B. --- Washington
I saw this on an advertisement. It is so true.
"Knowledge and ignorance are both perfected through redundancy."
--- Copyright © 1992 David Farley Hurlbert
"Nothing is ever as good or as bad as you think it will be."
--- Homer Weaver (my dad) --- Submitted by Lauren Hayward --- Colorado
"Dwelling on the past will only change you in the future."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by A Lloyd --- New Brunswick, Canada
"It's not about how much time you spend together; it's what you do with the time you do spend together."
--- Copyright © 2003 Ashley Getsay
I coined this phrase when one of my friends told me he was too busy to hang out with me anymore. It's not about spending every waking minute together, it's about enjoying the time you do spend together, even if that time is minimal.
"After ages, decay becomes coal and coal under pressure becomes a diamond.
Just as our life is a struggle for what we want it to be."
--- Copyright © 2003 Lazim Khan
"You walking out of my life does not make me bitter about love. It just makes me realize if I wanted so badly to be with the wrong person and was so happy, how amazing it will be when I find the right one."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Kate P. --- Virginia
"Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever."
--- Kerri Russel of "Felicity" --- Submitted by Nicole S. --- New Jersey
"The birth of a child is one of the hardest things to watch. But at the end of the process, that child is one of the most beautiful things on earth. Same applies to beautiful tasks."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Aparna S. --- California
"I want to give back more than I take, but the more I take the harder it is to give back."
--- Copyright © 2003 Saif Alam
"Keeping a finger on your lips is better than ending up with a foot in your mouth."
--- Copyright © 2003 Sylvester Isaac
"It's a huge heart that remembers to do small things."
--- Copyright © 2003 Whitney White
"Those whom you hate will consume your life."
--- Copyright © 2003 Shoipei Tyndall
"We should take the stairs of our life one step at a time. It is when we rush things or take two steps at a time that we tend to stumble or even fall."
--- Copyright © 2003 Kathy Romero
I just came up with this idea when my college groupmates failed in an activity, and when I analyzed why did it happened to us, I came up with something that I thought I could share with everyone...
"Small acts of kindness speak in loud voices."
--- Copyright © 2003 Steve Brunkhorst
