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Thought for the Week 
October 23rd
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." George Bernard Shaw
October 16th
"The opposite of love is not hate but indifference." Elie Wiesel
October 9th
"To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself." Albert Camus
October 2nd
"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life." Boris Pasternak
September 25th
September 18th
"Out of respect for things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures and my style is directly related to my limitations." Billy Joel
September 11th
" Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all." Dale Carnegie
September 4th
"There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one." Frances Clark
August 28th
"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." Horace
August 21st
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." William James
August 14th
"I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west....We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future...." Henry David Thoreau
August 7th
July 31st
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." Michelangelo
July 24th
July 17th
"I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. William Faulkner
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April 30th
" Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,--himself, his hungering neighbor, and me." James Russell Lowell
April 23rd
"Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. Goethe
April 16th
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller
April 9th
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." Confucius
September 27th
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." William Butler Yeats
September 13th
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." John Wooden
September 6th
"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion." Francis Bacon
August 30th
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now." Joan Baez
August 23nd
"Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold." Maurice Scitter
February 28th
" Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,--himself, his hungering neighbor, and me." James Russell Lowell
February 21st
"Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. Goethe
February 14th
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller
February 7th
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." Confucius
January 29th
"A poem begins with a lump in the throat." Robert Frost
January 22nd
"Out of respect for things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures and my style is directly related to my limitations." Billy Joel
January 15th
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." George Bernard Shaw
January 8th
"I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. William Faulkner
November 28th
"There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one." Frances Clark
November 7th
"Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. Goethe
November 2nd
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller
November 23rd
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." Confucius
November 16th
"Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time." Goethe
November 2nd
"The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress." Hendrik Willem Van Loon
October 26th
"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." Horace
October 19th
"The opposite of love is not hate but indifference." Elie Wiesel
October 12th
