Thought of the Day
Who Wrote This Love Letter?
Try to guess “who” wrote this love letter: “You say you love me, but sometimes you don’t show it. In the beginning you couldn’t do enough for me. Now you seem to take me for granted. Some days I even wonder if I mean anything at all to you. Maybe when I’m gone you’ll appreciate […]
Read, If You Want To Be Interesting
“Would you be interesting? Read. Would you know the best thoughts of the greatest people? Read. Would you know the greatest events in the countries of the world? Read. Would you know the earth and it’s peoples? Read. And with all your reading follow the advice of the wise Abbe Diment who said that we […]
Become Learned In A Few Minutes A Day
“The reading habit is most valuable in life. I mean by that practice of using a little time, say half an hour a day, in the systematic reading of worthwhile literature. The mind is opened to precious fields of thought; the achievement of the ages becomes ours; even the future takes form. As the mind […]
A Happiness Quote
Cheerfulness or Mirth? “I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient; cheerfulness, fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy; on the […]
To Break Our Own Records
“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records; to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force […]
Tempest-Tossed Souls
Tempest-tossed souls, wherever you may be, under whatever conditions you may live, know this: In the ocean of life the isles of blessedness are smiling and the sunny shore of your ideal awaits your coming. Keep your hands firmly upon the helm of thought. In the core of your soul reclines the commanding Master; He […]
A Quote About Hypocrisy
“Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he may be sincerely convinced of the advantages of conquering his passions without having yet obtained the victory as a man may be confident of the advantages of a voyage or […]
What I Must Do Is All That Concerns Me
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you […]