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.
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.
August 3, 2021
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
August 4, 2021
The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.
August 5, 2021
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
August 6, 2021
We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.
August 7, 2021
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
August 8, 2021
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
August 9, 2021
If I finish my day with no garden dirt under my fingernails and nothing new learned, it is a day wasted!
August 10, 2021
Every time we remember to say "thank you," we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
August 11, 2021
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
August 12, 2021
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
August 13, 2021
A schedule defends from chaos and whim.
August 14, 2021
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
August 15, 2021
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
August 16, 2021
We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.
August 17, 2021
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.
August 18, 2021
Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
August 19, 2021
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
August 20, 2021
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
August 21, 2021
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain --- and most fools do.
August 22, 2021
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
August 23, 2021
Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.
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?
August 25, 2021
I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
August 26, 2021
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
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.
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.
August 29, 2021
I shut my eyes in order to see.
August 30, 2021
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
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.