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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life but in a new way. - Doris Lessing I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything.... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Where there is great love, there are always miracles. - Willa Cather The greatest gift you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.- Brian Tracy Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.- Martin Luther King, Jr. As selfishness and complaint... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 17, 2025

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate. - William Arthur Ward (1921-1994 writer, educator, and church lay leader) The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 16, 2025

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. - William Wordsworth A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous. - Anonymous Miracles happen every day; change your perception of what a miracle is, and you'll see... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. - Matthew 7:5 The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. - William Hazlitt The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. -... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 14, 2025

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. - George Bernard Shaw The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, March 13, 2025

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit. - Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle) Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson To measure the man, measure his heart. - Malcolm S. Forbes Don't let anyone else take the measure of your worth and capabilities. Always stand proud in who you are. - Margaret Spellings The... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

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 lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 10, 2025

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.- Janis Joplin It all depends on how we look at things and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. - Carl Jung The price of anything is the amount of life... Sign in to see full entry.

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