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Archives - April 2019

April 1, 2019

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

– Earl Nightingale

April 1, 2019

Real friends are those who, when you’ve made a fool of yourself, don’t feel that you’ve done a permanent job.

– Erwin T. Randall

April 3, 2019

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

– E.B. White

April 4, 2019

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

– Thornton Wilder

April 5, 2019

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

– Eleonora Duse

April 6, 2019

Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.

– Eliyahu Goldratt

April 7, 2019

Like anything worth doing in life, happiness takes time and patience and consistency.

– Mark Manson

April 7, 2019

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.

– George Allen

April 9, 2019

I would love for people to be able to think of me as a guy who stood up for what he believed in and helped make a difference for the vets.

– Chris Kyle

April 10, 2019

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

– Lisa Scottoline

April 11, 2019

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

– Mick Jagger

April 12, 2019

I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them --- you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

April 13, 2019

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

– Laurence Olivier

April 14, 2019

They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.

– Joan McIntosh

April 15, 2019

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

– George R. R. Martin

April 16, 2019

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

– P. J. O'Rourke

April 16, 2019

It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money.

– Elinor Goulding Smith

April 17, 2019

Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.

– Frederick B. Wilcox

April 18, 2019

I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.

– Lewis Black

April 20, 2019

Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.

– Karen Savage and Patricia Adams, THE GOOD STEPMOTHER

April 21, 2019

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

– Og Mandino

April 22, 2019

On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. 

– Douglas Horton

April 23, 2019

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart...and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.

– Helen Hayes

April 24, 2019

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

– Johnnetta Cole

April 25, 2019

I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time. 

– Bill Gold

April 25, 2019

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

– Wilson Mizner

April 27, 2019

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement --- and we will make the goal.

– Jerome Fleishman

April 28, 2019

Don't look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams.

– Michael Beckwith

April 28, 2019

Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!

– Suzanne Brockmann

April 29, 2019

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

– Khalil Gibran