Archives - July 2012
July 1, 2012
Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most.
July 2, 2012
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and the life they lead?
July 4, 2012
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."
July 5, 2012
Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes --- one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.
July 6, 2012
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
July 7, 2012
I didn't really say everything I said.
July 8, 2012
Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.
July 8, 2012
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
July 9, 2012
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything --- and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
July 10, 2012
The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.
July 12, 2012
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
July 13, 2012
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
July 14, 2012
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
July 15, 2012
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
July 15, 2012
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
July 16, 2012
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
July 17, 2012
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
July 19, 2012
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
July 20, 2012
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
July 21, 2012
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
July 22, 2012
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
July 22, 2012
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
July 23, 2012
You can observe a lot just by watching.
July 25, 2012
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
July 25, 2012
Engrave this Quote By taking things personally, you set yourself up to suffer. The impact on you and the ripple effects on those around you are unhealthy.
July 27, 2012
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
July 28, 2012
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
July 28, 2012
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.
July 30, 2012
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
July 31, 2012
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
