Thought for Today

"Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel."

~~~~~ John Churton Collins

Thought for Today

"If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days."

~~~~~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Thought for Today

"The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older."

~~~~~ William Lyon Phelps

Thought for Today

"Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false."

~~~~~ Richard Cecil

Thought for Today

"Friends are the sunshine of life."

~~~~~ John Hay

Thought for Today

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."

~~~~~ Horace Walpole

Thought for Today

"In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed."

~~~~~ Sid Caesar

Thought for Today

"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."

~~~~~ Carl Jung

Thought for Today

"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great."

~~~~~ Edward Hopper

Thought for Today

"If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable."

~~~~~ Georges Courteline

Thought for Today

"One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful."

~~~~~ Thomas Arnold

Thought for Today

"There are two ways to slice easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."

~~~~~ Alfred Korzybski

Thought for Today

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."

~~~~~ Rabindranath Tagore

Thought for Today

"A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life."

~~~~~ Jean Ingelow

Thought for Today

"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery."

~~~~~ Maxim Gorky

Thought for Today

"The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it."

~~~~~ Horace Greeley

Thought for Today

"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."

~~~~~ Stephen Vincent Benet

Thought for Today

"In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."

~~~~~ S. I. Hayakawa

Thought for the Day

"Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting."

~~~~~ Orson F. Whitney

Thought for Today

"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."

~~~~~ Frederic Bastiat