Thought of the Day

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Who doesn't love getting a quick inspired quote to brighten their day? If you're a stick in the mud, this is the wrong place for you!

See below for a pretty good collection of thoughts.

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Ask for strength, you get difficulties to make you strong. Ask for wisdom, you get problems the solution of which develops wisdom. Prosperity...brain and brawn to work. Courage...dangers to overcome. Favours...opportunities. -unknown

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. -Bertrand Russell

People on earth have been convinced that misery is standard to life and not a by product of wrong living. -Iring

The lowest person on earth is worth worlds. -Perry

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. -Disraeli

Edward Gibbon, in 1788 set forth in his famous book, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", five basic reasons why that great civilization withered and died: 1) The undermining of the dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis for human society. 2) Higher and higher taxes: the spending of public money for free bread and circuses for the populace. 3) The mad craze for pleasure, with sports and plays becoming more exciting, more brutal, and more immoral. 4) The building of great armaments when the real enemy was within%uF02Dthe decay of individual responsibility. 5) The decay of religion, whose leaders lost their touch with life, and their power to guide the people. -Unknown

How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days? -Lindsay

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. -Thoreau

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves. -Edison

How goodness hightens beauty! -Hannah More

Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home, and enables me to enjoy it better. -Thoreau

Rather see the wonders of the world abroad than, living dully sluggardized at home, wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. -Shakespeare

The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page. -Augustine

Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he may be sincerely convinced of the advantages of conquering his passions without having yet obtained the victory, as a man may be confident of the advantages of a voyage or a journey, without having courage or industry to undertake it, and may honestly recommend to others those attempts which he neglects himself. -Johnson

Principles don't cease to be principles on Monday morning. -Evens

Harsh counsels have no effect. They are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. -Claude Helvetius

Life will give you what you ask of her if only you ask long enough and plainly enough. -unknown

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate. -Seneca

Health, beauty, vigor, riches, and all the other things called goods, operate equally as evils to the vicious and unjust, as they do as benefits to the just. -Plato

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war, pestilence and famine combined. -Gladstone

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