Thread: Thoughts of the day.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

----- Winston Churchill

...till the day we are reborn...

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Edvard Munch

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
---William Shakespeare

The heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Shunryu Suzuki

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
----William James

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

--Victor Hugo

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

---Mahatma Gandhi

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Salvador Dali

Being busy does not always mean real work.

The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration.

Seeming to do is not doing.


---Thomas A. Edison

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

Erich Fromm

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

----Walt Disney

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Frances Wright

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

----Rabindranath Tagore

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.


----George Bernard Shaw

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Henry David Thoreau