Archives - February 2011
February 1, 2011
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
February 2, 2011
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
February 3, 2011
There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to
cut through the lies we tell ourselves.
February 4, 2011
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody has thought.
February 5, 2011
The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing
something wrong.
February 6, 2011
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
February 7, 2011
The best defense against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of
humor.
February 8, 2011
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a
gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it
were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a
cuttlefish spurting out ink.
February 9, 2011
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but
remember that what you now have was once among the things you only
hoped for.
February 10, 2011
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your
mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled
with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and
creativity will instantly fill it.
February 11, 2011
It's choice --- not chance --- that determines your destiny.
February 12, 2011
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter
us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
February 13, 2011
Love is lost, life can burn,
But your luck will return,
But if you’re dragging it down you won’t know it’s there
February 14, 2011
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is
not ours to command.
February 15, 2011
People often say that “beauty is in the eye of the
beholder,” and I say that the most liberating thing about
beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to
find beauty in places where others have not dared to look,
including inside ourselves.
February 16, 2011
Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on
someone else. Let your light shine.
February 17, 2011
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you
will have to ram it down their throats.
February 18, 2011
Learning is not compulsory...neither is survival.
February 19, 2011
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody
settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than
themselves.
February 20, 2011
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book
about it.
February 21, 2011
When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes
it on Wednesday…no matter what happened Tuesday.
February 22, 2011
In executing the duties of my present important station, I can
promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these
into effect, fidelity and diligence.
February 23, 2011
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already
three parts dead.
February 24, 2011
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer
light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into
crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after
Truth.
February 25, 2011
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but
chant the beauty of the good.
February 26, 2011
You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his
friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting
without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that
trust.
February 27, 2011
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how
wonderful you are.
February 28, 2011
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable
invented to make them laugh.