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Archives - July 2017

July 1, 2017

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

– Roald Dahl

July 2, 2017

I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.

– Bill Bryson

July 3, 2017

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

– Jonathan Swift

July 4, 2017

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

– George Bernard Shaw

July 5, 2017

The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.

– John Alfred Langford

July 6, 2017

The way most people fail is not keeping up the heart.

– Lady Gregory

July 7, 2017

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

– Robert Schuller

July 8, 2017

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

– Anatole Broyard

July 9, 2017

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

July 10, 2017

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

– Wayne Dyer

July 11, 2017

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

– Dorothy Day

July 12, 2017

We resent an injury from a friend more than from an enemy.

– Sophocles

July 13, 2017

Every thought we have is a form of energy that continues to exist forever.

– Pim van Lommel

July 14, 2017

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

– Edwin Way Teale

July 15, 2017

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

July 16, 2017

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.

– Will Foley

July 17, 2017

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

– Leonard Sidney Woolf

July 18, 2017

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

– Yoko Ono

July 19, 2017

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

– Khalil Gibran

July 20, 2017

Surely, two of the most satisfying experiences in life must be those of being a grandchild or a grandparent.

– Donald A. Norberg

July 21, 2017

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable --- each segment distinct.

– Letty Cottin Pogrebin

July 22, 2017

Home is a shelter from storms --- all sorts of storms.

– William J. Bennett

July 23, 2017

A word after a word after a word is power.

– Margaret Atwood

July 24, 2017

The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.

– Sylvia Plath

July 25, 2017

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

– Eugene O'Neill

July 26, 2017

I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

– Yann Martel

July 27, 2017

Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

– Jeannette Walls

July 28, 2017

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

– Abigail Adams

July 29, 2017

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems --- not people, to focus your energies on answers --- not excuses.

– William Arthur Ward

July 30, 2017

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

– Edgar Cayce

July 31, 2017

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

– Anna Quindlen