Thought for the week

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Thought for the week

March 31^st

"So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilization, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age—the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night—are not solved; as long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless." Victor Hugo

March 24^th

" Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,--himself, his hungering neighbor, and me." James Russell Lowell

March 17^th

"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

March 10^th

"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

March 3^rd

"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

February 25^th

"There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one." Frances Clark

February 18^th

"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

February 11^th

"Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. Goethe

February 4^th

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." Hellen Keller

January 28^th

January 21^st

"Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science." Bernard Berenson

February 10^th

January 13^th

January 6^th

"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