Todays Thought

 Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

-George R.R. Martin

Todays Thought

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. 

-Madame De Stael, writer (22 Apr 1766-1817)

Todays Thought

There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan, and the musician. 

-Glenn T. Seaborg, scientist, Nobel laureate (19 Apr 1912-1999)

Todays Thought

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. 

-Robert Lynd, writer (20 Apr 1879-1949)

Today's Thought

The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have. 

- Anna Quindlen

Todays Thought

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. 

-Arnold J. Toynbee, historian (14 Apr 1889-1975)

Today's Thought

“Reality is too heavy for most people to carry. So they borrow illusions, soft dreams, sweet lies, and call it happiness.

-Franz Kafka

Todays Thought

Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance. 

-Verna Myers, author and speaker (b. 5 Apr 1960)

Todays Thought

But at my back I always hear

Time's winged chariot hurrying near;

And yonder all before us lie

Deserts of vast eternity.

-Andrew Marvell, poet (31 Mar 1621-1678)

Todays Thought

Let America be America again.

Let it be the dream it used to be. ...

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed -

Let it be that great strong land of love

Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme

That any man be crushed by one above.

 -Langston Hughes, poet and novelist (1 Feb 1902-1967)

Todays Thought

Jobs are like going to church: it's nice once or twice a year to sing along and eat something and all that, but unless you really believe there's something holy going on, it gets to be a drag going in every single week. 

-Thomas Michael Disch, science fiction author and poet (2 Feb 1940-2008)

Todays Thought

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. 

-Louis L’Amour, novelist (22 Mar 1908-1988)

Todays Thought

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying. 

-Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)

Todays Thought

Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid. 

-H.W. Fowler, lexicographer (10 Mar 1858-1933)

Todays Thought

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. 

-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., US Supreme Court Justice (8 Mar 1841-1935)

Todays Thought

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. 

-Dr. Seuss, author and illustrator (2 Mar 1904-1991)

Todays Thought

We have abundant reason to rejoice, that, in this land, the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened age, and in this land of equal liberty, it is our boast, that a man’s religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest offices that are known in the United States. 

-George Washington, 1st US president, general (22 Feb 1732-1799)

Todays Thought

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. 

-Dorothy Canfield Fisher, author, reformer, and activist (17 Feb 1879-1958)

Todays Thought

Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. 

-Douglas Hofstadter, professor of cognitive science (b. 15 Feb 1945)

Todays Thought

The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled lane with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and impoverished lives. 

-Florence Luscomb, architect and suffragist (6 Feb 1887-1985)