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Archives - October 2016

October 1, 2016

October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.

– John Sinor

October 2, 2016

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.

– Norbet Platt

October 3, 2016

All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile.

– Chris Hart

October 4, 2016

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth."

– Dan Rather

October 5, 2016

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

– Anton Chekhov

October 6, 2016

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.

– Josephine Hart

October 7, 2016

Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.

– Jonatan Mårtensson

October 8, 2016

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

– Raymond E. Feist

October 9, 2016

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

– Pedro Calderón de la Barca

October 10, 2016

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

– Marcel Proust

October 11, 2016

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

October 12, 2016

Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

– Robert Orben

October 13, 2016

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

– Norman Vincent Peale

October 14, 2016

Those who play rarely become brittle in the face of stress or lose the healing capacity for humor.

– Stuart Brown

October 16, 2016

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

– Billy Sunday

October 16, 2016

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

– Dale Carnegie

October 17, 2016

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.

– Lemony Snicket

October 18, 2016

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

– Robert Louis Stevenson

October 19, 2016

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

– Logan Pearsall Smith

October 20, 2016

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

– Thomas Mann

October 21, 2016

Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.

– François de la Rochefoucauld

October 23, 2016

Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.

– Anthony Liccione

October 24, 2016

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

– Lord Chesterfield

October 25, 2016

Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon.

– Peter Lynch

October 26, 2016

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

– Federico Fellini

October 27, 2016

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

– Brendan Francis

October 28, 2016

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.

– Arnold H. Glasgow

October 29, 2016

Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.

– Henri Matisse

October 29, 2016

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

– Martha Graham

October 31, 2016

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

– Alfred North Whitehead