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.
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.
April 3, 2019
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
April 4, 2019
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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.
April 6, 2019
Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.
April 7, 2019
Like anything worth doing in life, happiness takes time and patience and consistency.
April 7, 2019
Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.
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.
April 10, 2019
Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.
April 11, 2019
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.
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.
April 13, 2019
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
April 14, 2019
They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.
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.
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.
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.
April 17, 2019
Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.
April 18, 2019
I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.
April 20, 2019
Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.
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.
April 22, 2019
On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.
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.
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.
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.
April 25, 2019
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
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.
April 28, 2019
Don't look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams.
April 28, 2019
Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!
April 29, 2019
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.