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Sunday, February 20, 2022

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit. - Will Durant 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 others think is possible. -... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, February 19, 2022

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.

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.

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