The past is never where you think you left it. – Katherine Anne Porter, writer and activist (1890-1980)
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. – Hal Borland, author and journalist (1900-1978)
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“Life is a journey. Make your daily commute a joyride.” – Unknown
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand. – Mark Abley, writer and editor (1955)
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape. – Bono, musician and social activist (1960)
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. – J.M. Barrie, novelist and playwright (1860-1937)
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Jazz arises from a spirit of love, it comes from the mind and heart and goes through the fingertips. – Mary Lou Williams, pianist, arranger, and composer (1910-1981)
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. – Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941)
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. – Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939)
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. – Christopher Morley, journalist, novelist, essayist, and poet (1890-1957)