Quote For The Day

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”

Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and writer (121-180)

Quote For The Day

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune–without the words,
And never stops at all…”

Emily Dickenson

Quote For The Day

"The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind."
Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian

Quote For The Day

"Life is sometimes like the card game, Uno. You have to lose all to win."
Florence Ondré

Quote For The Day

"We make rhetoric out of the quarrels with others, but poetry out of the quarrels with ourselves."
W.B. Yeats

Quote For The Day

"Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others."
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), [The Devil's Dictionary, 1906]

Quote For The Day

"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time."
Abraham Lincoln

Quote For The Day

“There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.”

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Quote For The Day

“The fence of wisdom is silence.”

Rabbi Aqiba ben Joseph

Quote For The Day

“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”

Madeleine L’Engle, writer (1918-)

Quote For The Day

“It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing
with the same set of facts.”

Bill Vaughan, journalist (1915-1977)

Quote For The Day

"Reasonable people will understand."
Owen Lager, composer and musical director

Quote For The Day

“An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.”

Robert M. Sapolsky, neuroscientist and author

Quote For The Day

"Shift Happens."
Florence Ondré

Quote For The Day

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him (*or her) up on the phone whenever you felt like it."

J.D. Salinger

*gender update

Quote For The Day

"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
Doug Larson,Olympic Gold Medalist (1902-1981)

Quote For The Day

"How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"
Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (1865-1946)

Quote For The Day

"I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything."
Steven Wright, comedian

Quote For The Day

"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet."
Hal Borland, journalist (1900-1978),

Quote For The Day

“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”

Emily Bronte

**make that “sensible person, please.” Florence Ondré