February 28th
Sympathy: Two hearts tugging at one load.
— Charles H. Parkhurst
February 27th
I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
— Nikki Giovanni
February 26th
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
— Scott Westerfeld, PEEPS
February 25th
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
February 24th
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
— Agnes de Mille
February 23rd
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
— Thomas J. Watson
February 22nd
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
— George Washington
February 21st
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
— Annie Dillard, THE WRITING LIFE
February 20th
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
— Gore Vidal
February 19th
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
— Steven Wright
February 18th
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
— Kurt Vonnegut, SIRENS OF TITAN
February 17th
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
— Fran Lebowitz
February 16th
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
— Carl Schurz
February 15th
Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
— James Thurber
February 14th
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
— Henry David Thoreau
February 13th
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
— C. S. Lewis
February 12th
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
— Abraham Lincoln
February 11th
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
February 10th
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
— John Burrough
February 9th
Boredom: the desire for desires.
— Leo Tolstoy
February 8th
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
— Lily Tomlin
February 7th
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
February 6th
Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.
— George Carlin
February 5th
Reality isn't what it used to be.
— Walter Truett Anderson
February 4th
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
— Joan Didion
February 3rd
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
— Quentin Crisp
February 2nd
In the depth of winter I finally learned there was in me invincible summer.
— Albert Camus
February 1st
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
— Maya Angelou
