14 Thoughts (Ago. 24, 2011)

1. Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. R. H. Tawney

2. Education should be as gradual as the moonrise, perceptible not in progress, but in result. Author unknown

3. A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. Pearl S. Buck

4. Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? Marcel Marceau

5. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. Crowfoot

6. Your diligence and nurturing will protect and inspire many people in your lifetime. Acknowledge, and cherish, every single quality you have, and use it, and leverage it to the fullest. Make room daily for your own time and space, so that you are able to open your door generously to others. Teresa Heinz

7. Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements, and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay. Eric Hoffer

8. All clouds do not rain. Dutch proverb

9. Monotony is the awful reward of the careful. A. G. Buckham

10. Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. Theodore N. Vail

11. When you become a parent, you begin to become sympathetic to your own parents. We begin to understand how much we owe to them, how much we're shaped by their vision of the world. Philip Glass

12. You learn love by loving--by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. Aldous Huxley

13. Thou hast only to follow the wall far enough and there will be a door in it. Marguerite de Angeli

14. If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in too. Oscar Hammerstein II