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Archives - August 2018

August 1, 2018

No one wants advice --- only corroboration.

– John Steinbeck, THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT

August 2, 2018

I have seen the future and it is very much like the present --- only longer.

– Kehlog Albran

August 3, 2018

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

– Mary Oliver

August 4, 2018

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

– Agatha Christie

August 5, 2018

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. 

– Max Beerbohm

August 6, 2018

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

– Zig Ziglar

August 7, 2018

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

– Michael J. Fox

August 8, 2018

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools --- only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

– Jerry Saltz

August 9, 2018

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

– William S. Burroughs

August 10, 2018

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

– Hermann Hesse

August 11, 2018

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

– Erik Erikson

August 12, 2018

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

– Don Herold

August 13, 2018

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

– Arthur Schopenhauer

August 14, 2018

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

– Orson Welles

August 15, 2018

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 Burroughs

August 16, 2018

Conscience is, in most, an anticipation of the opinion of others.

– Henry Taylor

August 17, 2018

You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn't come off the way you thought it should come off.

– Aretha Franklin

August 18, 2018

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

– Nelson DeMille

August 19, 2018

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

– Victor Hugo

August 20, 2018

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

– Walt Disney

August 21, 2018

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

– William Kent Krueger

August 22, 2018

I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked "brightness" but it don't work, does it?

– Leo Anthony Gallagher

August 23, 2018

Worry is a misuse of imagination.

– Dan Zadra

August 24, 2018

Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.

– Evelyn Hendrickson

August 25, 2018

Simplify, then add lightness.

– Colin Chapman

August 26, 2018

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.

– Catherine McCormack

August 27, 2018

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

– Arthur Ashe

August 28, 2018

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

– Willa Cather

August 29, 2018

Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits.

– Thomas Hardy

August 30, 2018

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

– Puzant Kevork Thomajan

August 31, 2018

Gardening requires lots of water --- most of it in the form of perspiration.

– Lou Erickson