Thought for the Day

Friday May 18th 2012

the Thought Collector — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:19:20 +0000

Thought for the Day

“I don’t forgive people because I’m weak,
I forgive them because I am strong enough
to know people make mistakes.”

~ Marilyn Monroe
(1926-1962)

*Norma Jeane Mortensen Baker

Born June 1, 1926 Los Angeles, California,
Died August 5, 1962 (aged 36) Brentwood, Los Angeles, California

An American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Thursday May 17th 2012

the Thought Collector — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:08:56 +0000

Thought for the Day

“We are each of us angels with only one wing,
to fly we need only embrace each other.”

~ Author Unknown

Wednesday May 16th 2012

the Thought Collector — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:51:22 +0000

“When you are through changing,
you are through.”

~ Bruce Barton
(1886-1967)

*Bruce Fairchild Barton

Born August 5, 1886
Died July 5, 1967

An American author, advertising executive, and politician. He served in the U.S. Congress from 1937 to 1940 as a Republican from New York.

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Tuesday May 15th 2012

the Thought Collector — Tue, 15 May 2012 06:17:55 +0000

Thought for the Day

“If work were so pleasant,
the rich would keep it for themselves.”

~ Mark Twain
(1835-1910)

*Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Born November 30, 1835 Florida, Missouri
Died April 21, 1910 (aged 74) Redding, Connecticut

Well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called “the Great American Novel”, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He is extensively quoted. Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.

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Monday May 14th 2012

the Thought Collector — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:23:35 +0000

Thought for the Day

“The human mind is constructed to always move forward
Hanging on to the philosophy of ancient people
is a great stumbling block to the modern world.
One leg in the past, one leg in the future,
always pissing on TODAY.”

~ Author Unknown

Sunday May 13th 2012

the Thought Collector — Sun, 13 May 2012 06:53:50 +0000

Thought for the Day

“A mother is not a person to lean on
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”

~ Dorothy C. Fisher
(1879-1958)

*Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Born February 17, 1879 Lawrence, Kansas
Died November 9, 1958 Arlington, Vermont

An educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early decades of the twentieth century. She was named by Eleanor Roosevelt as one of the ten most influential women in the United States.

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Saturday May 12th 2012

the Thought Collector — Sat, 12 May 2012 06:19:26 +0000

Thought for the Day

“Fish and guests in three days are stale”

~ John Lyly

*John Lyly (Lilly or Lylie)

(c. 1553 or 1554 – November 1606) an English writer, poet, dramatist, playwright, and politician, best known for his books Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and His England (1580). Lyly’s literary style, originating in his first books, is known as Euphuism.

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Friday May 11th 2012

the Thought Collector — Fri, 11 May 2012 06:34:49 +0000

Thought for the Day

“A person who is nice to you,
but rude to the waiter,
is not a nice person.”

~ Dave Barry
(1947-)

*David “Dave” Barry

Born: July 3, 1947 Armonk, New York

A Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and columnist, who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for The Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comedic novels.

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Thursday May 10th 2012

the Thought Collector — Thu, 10 May 2012 06:07:05 +0000

Thought for the Day

“The person who masters himself
through self-control and discipline
is truly undefeatable.”

~ Buddha

*Gautama Buddha

A spiritual teacher from ancient India who founded Buddhism. In most Buddhist traditions, he is regarded as the Supreme Buddha, “Buddha” meaning “awakened one” or “the enlightened one.” The time of his birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century historians dated his lifetime as c. 563 BCE to 483 BCE, but more recent opinion dates his death to between 486 and 483 BCE or, according to some, between 411 and 400 BCE.

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Wednesday May 9th 2012

the Thought Collector — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:56:19 +0000

Thought for the Day

“A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day
he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.”

~ Albert Schweitzer
(1875-1965)

*Albert Schweitzer

Born: 14 January 1875 Kaysersberg, (Alsace-Lorraine), Germany (now Haut-Rhin, France)
Died: 4 September 1965 (aged 90) Lambaréné, Gabon

A Franco-German (Alsatian) theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by historical-critical methodology current at his time in certain academic circles, as well as the traditional Christian view, depicting a Jesus Christ who expected and predicted the imminent end of the world. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of “Reverence for Life”.

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Tuesday May 8th 2012

the Thought Collector — Tue, 08 May 2012 06:00:16 +0000

Thought for the Day

“You cannot run away from weakness;
you must some time fight it out or perish;
and if that be so,
why not now, and where you stand?”

~ Robert Louis Stevenson
(1850-1894)

*Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson

Born: 13 November 1850 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died: 3 December 1894 (aged 44) Vailima, Samoa

A Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His most well known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped and the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stevenson has been greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he “seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins”.

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Monday May 7th 2012

the Thought Collector — Mon, 07 May 2012 06:28:24 +0000

Thought for the Day

“Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.”

~ Linda Solegato

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Sunday May 6th 2012

the Thought Collector — Sun, 06 May 2012 06:49:38 +0000

Thought for the Day

“Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties,
but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses,
and small obligations, given habitually,
are what win and preserve the heart
and secure comfort.”

~ Humphry Davy

*Humphry Davy

Born 17 December 1778

Died 29 May 1829

Sir Humphry Davy, often incorrectly spelled Humphrey, was a Cornish chemist who discovered several chemical elements and studied the human body’s response to electricity. He is generally credited with inventing the Miners’ Safety Lamp, although George Stephenson also claimed the invention.

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Saturday May 5th 2012

the Thought Collector — Sat, 05 May 2012 06:35:12 +0000

Thought for the Day

“Most of us have never lived in normal times.”

~ Author Unknown