November 30, 2007
"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."
Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty
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November 29, 2007
"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see the land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."
Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) US forester, conservationist
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1:04 AM
November 28, 2007
"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."
William Blake
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1:24 AM
November 27, 2007
"Failure is not reaching your goal, but in having no goal to reach."
Benjamin Mays
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1:22 AM
November 26, 2007
"I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once."
John Coltrane
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1:21 AM
November 23, 2007
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
Mother Teresa
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1:45 AM
November 22, 2007
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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1:31 AM
November 21, 2007
"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. "
W.T. Purkiser
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1:41 AM
November 20, 2007
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."
Thornton Wilder
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12:39 AM
November 19, 2007
"One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are."
Gail Godwin
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1:29 AM
November 16, 2007
"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it . . . ."
Soren Kierkegaard
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12:30 AM
November 15, 2007
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."
John Lubbock
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12:25 AM
November 14, 2007
"The Great Way has no gate. There are a thousand paths to it."
Wu-men
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12:23 AM
November 13, 2007
"To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding."
Ken Wilber, Eye of Spirit
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1:22 AM
November 12, 2007
"What's the good of a birthday if you can't get what you want?"
Gracie Fields
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12:19 AM
November 9, 2007
"Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance."
Elbert Hubbard
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1:33 AM
November 8, 2007
"Only those in tune with nature seem to pick up on the energy in wind. All sorts of things get swept off in the breeze - ghosts, pieces of soul, voices unsung, thoughts repressed, love uncherished, and a thousands galore of spiritual ether. Wind is an emotional rush because emotions are rushing by."
Drew Sirtors
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12:31 AM
November 7, 2007
"It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation."
John Gray, author (b. 1951)
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1:18 AM
November 6, 2007
"A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected."
Carl Sandburg
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1:12 AM
November 5, 2007
"Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast."
Peter Drucker management consultant, professor and writer (1909-2005)
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1:14 AM
November 2, 2007
"Genius is the error in the system."
Paul Klee
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8:11 AM
November 1, 2007
"The inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
Walter Bagehot, 1870
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12:10 AM