February 28th
Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
— Audre Lorde, "Eye to Eye" from SISTER OUTSIDER
February 27th
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
— Count Leo Tolstoy
February 26th
Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.
— Robert Orben
February 25th
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
— Rose Kennedy
February 24th
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.
— Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man Under Socialism"
February 23rd
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
— Edith Wharton
February 22nd
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
— George Washington
February 21st
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
— James Earl Jones, VOICES AND SILENCES
February 20th
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
— Helen Keller
February 19th
George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles.
— Author Unknown
February 18th
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
— Anna Freud
February 17th
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
— C. S. Lewis
February 16th
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
February 15th
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
— Mignon McLaughlin
February 14th
Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without.
— Rafael Ortiz
February 13th
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
— Mark Twain
February 12th
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
— Abraham Lincoln
February 11th
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
— Walter Savage Landor
February 10th
Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
— Edgar Watson Howe
February 9th
All great achievements require time.
— Maya Angelou
February 8th
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
— Blaise Pascal
February 7th
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
— Sean O'Casey
February 6th
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
— Henry David Thoreau
February 5th
Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
— Madeleine L'Engle, AN ACCEPTABLE TIME
February 4th
I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving --- not giving and taking.
— Joyce Grenfell
February 3rd
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
— Terry Pratchett
February 2nd
Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
— Tom Lehrer
February 1st
Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
— William Gilmore Simms
