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Archives - November 2017

November 2, 2017

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

– Charles Kuralt

November 3, 2017

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

– Diane Ackerman

November 4, 2017

There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends.

– Arnot Sheppard

November 5, 2017

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

– Edwin Markham

November 6, 2017

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

– Haim G. Ginott

November 7, 2017

The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.

– Ann Wigmore

November 8, 2017

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

– Hugh Sidey

November 9, 2017

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

– Mark van Doren

November 10, 2017

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

– George E. Woodberry

November 11, 2017

While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.

– Randy Neugebauer

November 12, 2017

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

– Charles Angoff

November 13, 2017

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

– Sydney J. Harris

November 14, 2017

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

– John Steinbeck

November 15, 2017

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

– Bernard M. Baruch

November 16, 2017

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.

– Dorothy Parker

November 17, 2017

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

– Helen Rowland

November 18, 2017

Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.

– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

November 19, 2017

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if you have to dig a little. 

– Tori Amos

November 20, 2017

Without a single thought, two hands collide and the world finally makes sense again.

– Kayla Dawn

November 21, 2017

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

– John Updike

November 22, 2017

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.

– Samual McChord Crothers

November 23, 2017

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.

– Johnny Carson

November 24, 2017

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

– Kumail Nanjiani

November 25, 2017

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

– Reba McEntire

November 26, 2017

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

– Ann Landers

November 27, 2017

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

– Ulysses S. Grant

November 28, 2017

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

– Jimi Hendrix

November 29, 2017

Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

– Jerry Seinfeld

November 30, 2017

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

– Chuck Palahniuk