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Archives - October 2018

October 1, 2018

Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

– Shana Alexander

October 2, 2018

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

– Samuel Butler, THE WAY OF ALL FLESH

October 3, 2018

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

– Bertrand Russell

October 4, 2018

Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.

– Christina Aguilera

October 5, 2018

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

– Doménico Cieri Estrada

October 6, 2018

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

– Wilma Rudolph

October 7, 2018

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

– Edgar Watson Howe

October 8, 2018

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

– Lillian Smith

October 9, 2018

Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth.

– Ralph Parlette

October 10, 2018

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

– Maurice Baring

October 11, 2018

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

– Lorne Michaels

October 12, 2018

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

– Anaïs Nin

October 13, 2018

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

– Edna Woolman Chase

October 14, 2018

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

– Ellen DeGeneres

October 15, 2018

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

– Confucius

October 16, 2018

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

– Norman Cousins

October 17, 2018

A curious part of the human psyche is that the moment that a person presumed to be in danger is discovered to be safe, everyone's anxiety turns into anger.

– Monica Fairview, THE DARCY COUSINS

October 18, 2018

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.

– Henry S. Haskins

October 19, 2018

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little --- do what you can.

– Sydney Smith

October 20, 2018

Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

– Neil Gaiman

October 21, 2018

Silence is a text easy to misread.

– A.A. Attanasio

October 22, 2018

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

– SamuelMcChord Crothers

October 23, 2018

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

– Hans Nouwens

October 24, 2018

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

– Julius Charles Hare

October 25, 2018

First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children.

– Milton Greenblatt

October 26, 2018

Destiny has two ways of crushing us --- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

October 27, 2018

The best of the old stories spoke to the listener because they spoke not just to the ears but to the heart as well.

– Jane Yolen

October 28, 2018

Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs.

– Dan Zadra

October 29, 2018

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

– William James

October 30, 2018

A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison.

– Francis Bacon

October 30, 2018

It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

– Ashleigh Brilliant

October 31, 2018

Halloween is one day of breaking out of your shell, one day you can be completely expressive, where the world gives you license to dress up.

– Chris March