Thought for the Week

October 4^th

• "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

September 27^th

• "Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." Michelangelo

September 20^th

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

September 13^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

September 6^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

August 30^th

• " Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." Robert F. Kennedy

August 23^rd

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

August 16^th

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

August 9^th

• "Man is born to live, not to prepare for life." Boris Pasternak

August 2^nd

• "Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." Horace

July 26^th 

• "To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself." Albert Camus

July 19^th

• "The opposite of love is not hate but indifference." Elie Wiesel

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April 9^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

April 2^nd

• "A poem begins with a lump in the throat." Robert Frost

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October 25^th

• " 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

October 18^th

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

October 4^th

• "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." William James

September 27^th

• "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." William Butler Yeats

September20^th

• "The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn." Alvin Toffler

September 13^th

• "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." John Wooden

September 6^th

• "Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion." Francis Bacon

August 30^th

• "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 23^nd

• "Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold." Maurice Scitter

February 28^th

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

February 21^st

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

February 14^th

• "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 7^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

January 29^th

• "A poem begins with a lump in the throat." Robert Frost

January 22^nd

• "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 15^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

January 8^th

• "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 28^th

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

November 7^th

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

November 2^nd

• "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 23^rd

• "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 16^th

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

November 2^nd

• "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 26^th

• "Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." Horace

October 19^th

• "The opposite of love is not hate but indifference." Elie Wiesel

October 12^th

• "Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give." Ralph Waldo Emerson

October 5^th

• "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

September 28^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

September 21^st

• "Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." Horace

September 14^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

September 7^th

• "Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." Michelangelo

August 31^st

• "Man is born to live, not to prepare for life." Boris Pasternak