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Friday Dec 16, 2022

Confucius: Real knowledge

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

Thursday Dec 15, 2022

Mark Twain: A moon

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Mark Twain

Wednesday Dec 14, 2022

Steve Maraboli: An incredible change in your life

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.

Steve Maraboli

Tuesday Dec 13, 2022

Paulo Coelho: Victim or adventurer

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure.
It's all a question of how I view my life.

Paulo Coelho

Monday Dec 12, 2022

Lou Holtz: The load

It's not the load that breaks you down,
it's the way you carry it.
 

Lou Holtz

Friday Dec 9, 2022

Maya Angelou: Defeats

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Maya Angelou

Thursday Dec 8, 2022

Steve Maraboli: Unhealthy attachment

The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.

Steve Maraboli

Wednesday Dec 7, 2022

Confucius: How to save someone's life

Give a bowl of rice to a man
and you will feed him for a day.
Teach him how to grow his own rice
and you will save his life.

Confucius

Tuesday Dec 6, 2022

Laozi: The teachings

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Laozi

Monday Dec 5, 2022

Charles Dickens: Reflections

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

Friday Dec 2, 2022

Steve Maraboli: What are you going to create?

No matter what your history has been,
your destiny is what you create today.
What are you going to create?

Steve Maraboli

Thursday Dec 1, 2022

Mark Twain: The best way to cheer yourself

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Mark Twain

Wednesday Nov 30, 2022

John Green: The labyrinth of suffering

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

John Green

Tuesday Nov 29, 2022

Albert Einstein: Our situation here on Earth

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Albert Einstein

Monday Nov 28, 2022

Confucius: Music

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Confucius

Friday Nov 25, 2022

H.G. Wells: Our nationality

Our true nationality is mankind.

H.G. Wells

Thursday Nov 24, 2022

Charles Dickens: Heart, temper and touch

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

Wednesday Nov 23, 2022

Laozi: Intuitive understanding

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Laozi

Tuesday Nov 22, 2022

Mahatma Gandhi: Victory by violence

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Mahatma Gandhi

Monday Nov 21, 2022

Albert Einstein: Your conscience

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Albert Einstein