June 30th
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
— George Bernard Shaw
June 29th
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
— Ellen Metcalf
June 28th
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
June 27th
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
— H. L. Mencken
June 26th
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought --- particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.
— Woody Allen
June 25th
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
— Sydney J. Harris, "Strictly Personal"
June 24th
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
— Thomas A. Kempis
June 23rd
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
— Jesse Stuart
June 22nd
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of --- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
— Socrates
June 21st
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
— John Lubbock
June 20th
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
— Jerry Seinfeld
June 19th
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.
— E. M. Forster
June 18th
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
— Norman Vincent Peale
June 17th
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
— Dave Meurer, DAZE OF OUR WIVES
June 16th
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them --- every day begin the task anew.
— Saint Francis de Sales
June 15th
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers --- and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
— David M. Gottesman
June 14th
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
— Eric Hoffer, THE PASSIONATE STATE OF MIND, 1954
June 13th
A film is --- or should be --- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
— Stanley Kubrick
June 12th
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
— Robert Louis Stevenson
June 11th
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
June 10th
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
— Judith Martin
June 9th
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
— Doug Larson
June 8th
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
— Laurence J. Peter
June 7th
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
— Mary Hemingway
June 6th
Television is the first truly democratic culture --- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
— Clive Barnes
June 5th
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
— Margaret Fuller, WOMAN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, 1845
June 4th
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
— Brian Adams
June 3rd
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it --- don't back down and don't give up --- then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.
— Bob Dylan
June 2nd
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
— Ogden Nash
June 1st
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
— Erica Jong
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