Thought For The day

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  1. esgallindeion

    esgallindeion Minstrel Knight

    For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
    - Rainer Maria Rilke
     
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    zoomingrocket TeChNiCaL AdMiNiStRaToR

    "The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it."
    - Germaine De Stael
     
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    zoomingrocket TeChNiCaL AdMiNiStRaToR

    "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."
    - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
     
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    zoomingrocket TeChNiCaL AdMiNiStRaToR

    "Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will."
    - George Bernard Shaw
     
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    zoomingrocket TeChNiCaL AdMiNiStRaToR

    "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
    - Winston Churchill
     
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    zoomingrocket TeChNiCaL AdMiNiStRaToR

    "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart."
    - Helen Keller
     
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    zoomingrocket TeChNiCaL AdMiNiStRaToR

    "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
    - Albert Einstein
     
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    zoomingrocket TeChNiCaL AdMiNiStRaToR

    "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live."
    - Mark Twain
     
  9. zoomingrocket

    zoomingrocket TeChNiCaL AdMiNiStRaToR

    "When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
    - Mark Twain
     
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    zoomingrocket TeChNiCaL AdMiNiStRaToR

    "Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art."
    - George Sand
     
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    zoomingrocket TeChNiCaL AdMiNiStRaToR

    "Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it."
    - Marian Anderson
     
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    zoomingrocket TeChNiCaL AdMiNiStRaToR

    "Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."
    - Nicholas Murray Butler
     
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    zoomingrocket TeChNiCaL AdMiNiStRaToR

    "Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."
    - Aristotle
     
  14. esgallindeion

    esgallindeion Minstrel Knight

    "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
    - Henry David Thoreau
     
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    esgallindeion Minstrel Knight

    "Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better."
    - King Whitney Jr.
     
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    esgallindeion Minstrel Knight

    "I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
    - Martha Washington
     
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    esgallindeion Minstrel Knight

    "There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."
    - Alfred Korzybski
     
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    esgallindeion Minstrel Knight

    "Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
    - Abraham Lincoln
     
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    esgallindeion Minstrel Knight

    "If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."
    - Anna Quindlen
     
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    esgallindeion Minstrel Knight

    "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows."
    - Socrates
     
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