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Friday, February 18, 2022

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened. - Joan Rivers Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. - Albert Einstein We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 17, 2022

It is not worthy of a human being to give up. - Alva Myrdal Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. - Henry David Thoreau Sign in to see full entry.

All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about. We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch,... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. - Josh Billings Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, February 14, 2022

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Sign in to see full entry.

“By the miraculous care of providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectations; for I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me yet escaped unhurt...." - George Washington. Sign in to see full entry.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see. - Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke’s poem “In a Dark Time” opens with an assertion: Hardships clarify who we are and what matters to us most. Without challenges to illuminate needs from wants, we risk taking aspects of our lives for granted. Roethke, who lost... Sign in to see full entry.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. - R. Buckminster Fuller Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual to get a better view of what is possible. - Mary Anne Radmacher There are all kinds of futures. There is a hoped-for future, there is a feared... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, February 13, 2022

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. - Anne Frank Sign in to see full entry.

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