June 30th
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.
— Maya Angelou, I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
June 29th
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
— John Galsworthy
June 28th
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.
— Robert Frost
June 27th
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
— William Arthur Ward
June 26th
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
— Satya Sai Baba
June 25th
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
— Olin Miller
June 24th
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
— T. S. Eliot
June 23rd
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
— Paul Boese
June 22nd
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.
— Violette Leduc, MAD IN PURSUIT
June 21st
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
— George Santayana
June 20th
If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?
— Shantideva
June 19th
It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home --- it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.
— Margaret Truman
June 18th
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
— Margaret Fairless Barber
June 17th
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
— William James
June 16th
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
— Channing Pollack
June 15th
He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.
— Lao-Tzu
June 14th
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
— Jean Kerr
June 13th
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
— Confucious
June 12th
When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
— Joseph Campbell
June 11th
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
— Tom Robbins
June 10th
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
— Mahatma Gandhi
June 9th
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
— Jean Jacques Rousseau
June 8th
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
— Lily Tomlin
June 7th
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
— John Stuart Mill
June 6th
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
— Carl Zwanzig
June 5th
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.
— Lawrence J. Peter
June 4th
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
— Bill Watterson, in his comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes"
June 3rd
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
June 2nd
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
— Mae West
June 1st
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
— Plato
