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Archives - August 2021

August 1, 2021

You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

– Lydia M. Child

August 2, 2021

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

– Jonathan Swift

August 3, 2021

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

– Vernon Sanders Law

August 4, 2021

The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.

– Bill Murray

August 5, 2021

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

– Francis Thompson

August 6, 2021

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

– Anna Quindlen, HOW READING CHANGED MY LIFE

August 7, 2021

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

– Christine Bovee

August 8, 2021

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

– Thomas Moore

August 9, 2021

If I finish my day with no garden dirt under my fingernails and nothing new learned, it is a day wasted!

– Valerie Clague

August 10, 2021

Every time we remember to say "thank you," we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

August 11, 2021

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

– John Lilly

August 12, 2021

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

– B. F. Skinner

August 13, 2021

A schedule defends from chaos and whim.

– Annie Dillard

August 14, 2021

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

– Sylvia Plath, THE BELL JAR

August 15, 2021

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

– Tom Bissell

August 16, 2021

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

– Randy K. Milholland

August 17, 2021

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.

– Peter McArthur

August 18, 2021

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

– Robert Byrne

August 19, 2021

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

– Sheila Graham

August 20, 2021

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

– Jane Wyman

August 21, 2021

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain --- and most fools do.

– Dale Carnegie

August 22, 2021

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

– Bret Harte

August 23, 2021

Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.

– Kay Ryan

August 24, 2021

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

– Robert Louis Stevenson

August 25, 2021

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

– Pat Conroy

August 26, 2021

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

– Henry S. Haskins

August 27, 2021

You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.

– Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008

August 28, 2021

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

– Bette Davis, THE LONELY LIFE

August 29, 2021

I shut my eyes in order to see.

– Paul Gauguin

August 30, 2021

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

– Katharine Whitehorn

August 31, 2021

We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them.

– Gene McSweeney