Thought For The Day

1. 1
Thoughts for every day:
Menu 1: Select the date
•January: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
•February: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
•March: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
•April: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
•May: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
•June: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
July to December

2. 2
Thoughts for every day:
Menu 2: Select the date
•July: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22,
23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
•August: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
•September: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
•October: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
•November: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
•December: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
January to June

3. 3
PEACE OF MIND
•The mind is never right but when it is at
peace within itself.
•Lucius Annaeus Seneca

4. 4
HAPPINESS
•There is no duty so much underrated as
the duty of being happy.
•Robert Louis Stevenson

5. 5
ACCEPTANCE
•God, grant me the serenity to accept the
things I cannot change, the courage to
change the things I can, and the wisdom to
know the difference.
•Reinhold Niebuhr

6. 6
FORGIVENESS
•Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
•Gerald Jampolsky

7. 7
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
•God brings men into deep waters not to
drown them, but to cleanse them.
•Aughey

8. 8
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
•Envy comes from people’s ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
•Jean Vanier

9. 9
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
•Make yourself necessary to somebody.
•Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. 10
FRIENDSHIP
•True friendship comes when silence
between two people is comfortable.
•Dave Tyson Gentry

11. 11
OUR HIGHER POWER, OR
GOD
•When we lose God, it is not God who is
lost.
•Anon

12. 12
FAITH AND BELIEF
•Sorrow looks back, worry looks around,
faith looks up.
•Guideposts

13. 13
PRAYER
•Prayer moves the hand that moves the
world.
•John Aikman Wallace

14. 14
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
•You can succeed if nobody else believes
it, but you will never succeed if you don’t
believe in yourself.
•William J.H. Boetcker

15. 15
SELF-CONTROL
•Self-control is the quality that
distinguishes the fittest to survive.
•George Bernard Shaw

16. 16
SELF-CONFIDENCE
•Experience tells you what to do;
confidence allows you to do it.
•Stan Smith

17. 17
SIMPLICITY
•What I do, I do very well, and what I
don’t do well, I don’t do at all.
•Anon

18. 18
ONE DAY
•Nothing in business is so valuable as time.
•John H. Patterson

19. 19
YESTERDAY: THE PAST
•Enjoy yourself. These are the “good old
days” you’re going to miss in the years
ahead.
•Anon

20. 20
TODAY: THE PRESENT
•The best preparation for good work
tomorrow is to do good work today.
•Elbert Hubbard

21. 21
THIS MOMENT
•If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing
would get done.
•Anon

22. 22
MORNINGS
•Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets
up in time to get an early start.
•Edgar Watson Howe

23. 23
EVENINGS
•Sum up at night what thou has done by
day.
•Lord Herbert

24. 24
TOMORROW: THE FUTURE
•Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown
guest.
•Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

25. 25
AVERAGE, “BORING” DAYS
•Everything considered, work is less
boring than amusing oneself.
•Charles Baudelaire

26. 26
DIFFICULT DAYS
•The secret of patience … to do something
else in the meantime.
•Anon

27. 27
•Give to the world the best you have and
the best will come back to you.
•Madeline Bridges
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS

28. 28
•Give me a man who sings at his work.
•Thomas Carlyle
ENTHUSIASM

29. 29
•Hope is putting faith to work when
doubting would be easier.
•Anon
HOPE

30. 30
•We all live under the same sky, but we
don’t all have the same horizon.
•Konrad Adenauer
VISUALIZATION

31. 31
•Example is the school of mankind, and
they will learn at no other.
•Burke
ROLE MODELS

32. 32
•Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds
cannot change anything.
•George Bernard Shaw
CHANGE

33. 33
•Wherever you see a successful business,
someone once made a courageous
decision.
•Peter Drucker
DECISIONS

34. 34
•Systems die; instincts remain.
•Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
INSTINCTS

35. 35
•Skills vary. We must … strive by that
which is born in us.
•Pindar
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR
US

36. 36
•To be what we are, and to become what
we are capable of becoming, is the only
end of life.
•Baruch Spinoza
MOTIVATION

37. 37
•Sometimes it is more important to
discover what one cannot do, than what
one can do.
•Lin Yutang
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

38. 38
•The one thing worth living for is to keep
one’s soul pure.
•Marcus Aurelius
GOALS

39. 39
•Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only
a fool is never afraid.
•Ron Meyer
FEAR

40. 40
•Every morning I spend fifteen minutes
filling my mind full of God, and so
there’s no room left for worry thoughts.
•Howard Chandler Christy
WORRY

41. 41
•Any coward can fight a battle when he’s
sure of winning.
•George Eliot
DOUBTS AND
UNCERTAINTIES

42. 42
•There is no security on this earth. Only
opportunity.
•General Douglas MacArthur
SECURITY

43. 43
•No one reaches a high position without
daring.
•Publilius Syrus
RISKS

44. 44
•To know what is right and not do it is the
worst cowardice.
•Confucius
COURAGE

45. 45
•The will of God will not take you where
the grace of God cannot keep you.
•Anon
WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO
HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF
US

46. 46
•If you don’t stand for something, you’ll
fall for anything.
•Michael Evans
COMMITMENT

47. 47
•Inspirations never go in for long
engagements; they demand immediate
marriage to action.
•Brendan Francis
GETTING GOING

48. 48
•The very first step towards success in any
occupation is to become interested in it.
•Sir William Osler
SUCCESS

49. 49
•The one who is intent on making the most
of his opportunities is too busy to bother
about luck.
•B.C. Forbes
LUCK

50. 50
•The successful person is one who had the
chance and took it.
•Roger Babson
OPPORTUNITY

51. 51
•Nothing of worthy or weight can be
achieved with half a mind, with a faint
heart, and with a lame endeavor.
•Isaac Barrow
COMMITMENT

52. 52
•Concentrate on finding your goal, then
concentrate on reaching it.
•Colonel Michael Friedsman
CONCENTRATION

53. 53
•Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately,
you occasionally find men who disgrace
labor.
•Ulysses S. Grant
WORK

54. 54
•The person with insight enough to admit
his limitations comes nearest to
perfection.
•Johann von Goethe
PERFECTION

55. 55
•God tests His real friends more severely
than the lukewarm ones.
•Katheryn Hulme
JUST DO THE FOOTWORK,
THEN LET IT GO

56. 56
•I recommend you to take care of the
minutes, for the hours will take care of
themselves.
•Lord Chesterfield
TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME

57. 57
•They who are the most persistent, and
work in the true spirit, will invariably be
the most successful.
•Samuel Smiles
PERSEVERANCE

58. 58
•Any concern too small to be turned into a
prayer is too small to be made into a
burden.
•Corrie ten Bloom
PROBLEMS

59. 59
•Intelligence is not to make no mistakes,
but quickly to see how to make them
good.
•Bertolt Brecht
FAILURES AND MISTAKES

60. 60
•Strong people are made by opposition,
like kites that go up against the wind.
•Frank Harris
THE ADVANTAGES OF
ADVERSITY

61. 61
•What counts in making a happy marriage
is not so much how compatible you are,
but how you deal with incompatibility.
•George Levinger
REACTING TO EVENTS

62. 62
•Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we
yield to it, we can never do anything wise
in this world.
•Helen Keller
SELF-PITY

63. 63
PEACE OF MIND
•Peace of mind is that mental condition in
which you have accepted the worst.
•Lin Yutang

64. 64
HAPPINESS
•Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how
dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
•Hosea Ballou

65. 65
ACCEPTANCE
•We must accept finite disappointment, but
we must never lose infinite hope.
•Martin Luther King, Jr.

66. 66
FORGIVENESS
•The angry people are those people who
are most afraid.
•Dr. Robert Anthony

67. 67
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
•Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
•Karl Barth

68. 68
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
•The only normal people are the ones you
don’t know very well.
•Foe Ancis

69. 69
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
•Generosity gives assistance, rather than
advice.
•Vauvenargues

70. 70
FRIENDSHIP
•The two most important things in life are
good friends and a strong bull pen.
•Bob Lemon

71. 71
ACCEPTANCE
•Acceptance is the truest kinship with
humanity.
•G.K. Chesterton

72. 72
OUR HIGHER POWER, OR
GOD
•Some people talk about finding God, as if
He could get lost.
•Anon

73. 73
FAITH AND BELIEF
•Only the person who has faith in himself
is able to be faithful to others.
•Erich Fromm

74. 74
PRAYER
•Prayer does not change God, but it
changes him who prays.
•Soren Kierkegaard

75. 75
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
•I’m not OK, you’re not OK - and that’s
OK.
•William Sloane Coffin

76. 76
SELF-CONTROL
•When the fight begins within himself, a
man’s worth something.
•Robert Browning

77. 77
SELF-RELIANCE
•Your future depends on many things, but
mostly on you.
•Frank Tyger

78. 78
SIMPLICITY
•What you do not want done to yourself,
do not do to others.
•Confucius

79. 79
ONE DAY
•Nothing is worth more than this day.
•Johann von Goethe

80. 80
YESTERDAY: THE PAST
•Some folks never exaggerate - they just
remember big.
•Audrey Snead

81. 81
TODAY: THE PRESENT
•It is difficult to live in the present,
ridiculous to live in the future and
impossible to live in the past.
•Jim Bishop

82. 82
THIS MOMENT
•The only courage that matters is the kind
that gets you from one moment to the
next.
•Mignon McLaughlin

83. 83
MORNINGS
•With each sunrise, we start anew.
•Anon

84. 84
EVENINGS
•Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use
tonight.
•Scottish proverb

85. 85
TOMORROW: THE FUTURE
•God made the world round so we would
never be able to see too far down the road.
•Isak Dinesen

86. 86
AVERAGE, “BORING” DAYS
•Being bored is an insult to oneself.
•Jules Renard

87. 87
DIFFICULT DAYS
•Pain is never permanent.
•Saint Teresa of Avila

88. 88
•The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and
it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.
•Herbert Samuels
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS

89. 89
•You will do foolish things, but do them
with enthusiasm.
•Colette
ENTHUSIASM

90. 90
•Hope is one of those things in life you
cannot do without.
•LeRoy Douglas
HOPE

91. 91
•A genius is one who shoots at something
no one else can see - and hits it.
•Anon
VISUALIZATION

92. 92
•People never improve unless they look to
some standard or example higher and
better than themselves.
•Tyron Edwards
ROLE MODELS

93. 93
•Readjusting is a painful process, but most
of us need it at one time or another.
•Arthur Christopher Benson
CHANGE

94. 94
•Full maturity … is achieved by realizing
that you have choices to make.
•Angela Barron McBride
DECISIONS

95. 95
•You don’t get to choose how you’re going
to die. Or when. You can only decide
how you’re going to live.
•Joan Baez
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR
US

96. 96
•There is just one life for each of us: our
own.
•Euripides
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR
US

97. 97
•Don’t let other people tell you what you
want.
•Pat Riley
MOTIVATION

98. 98
•No one has ever loved anyone the way
everyone wants to be loved.
•Mignon McLaughlin
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

99. 99
•If you don’t know where you are going,
how can you expect to get there?
•Basil S. Walsh
GOALS

100. 100
•We are more often frightened than hurt;
and we suffer more from imagination than
from reality.
•Marcus Annaeus Seneca
FEAR

101. 101
•If your eyes are blinded with your
worries, you cannot see the beauty of the
sunset.
•Krishnamurti
WORRY

102. 102
•To be absolutely certain about something,
one must know everything, or nothing,
about it.
•Olin Miller
DOUBTS AND
UNCERTAINTIES

103. 103
•To keep oneself safe does not mean to
bury oneself.
•Marcus Annaeus Seneca
SECURITY

104. 104
•It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
•Erica Jong
RISKS

105. 105
•It takes courage to know when you ought
to be afraid.
•James A. Michener
COURAGE

106. 106
•We shall draw from the heart of suffering
itself the means of inspiration and
survival.
•Sir Winston Churchill
WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO
HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF
US

107. 107
•Painting is easy when you don’t know
how, but very difficult when you do.
•Edgar Degas
“IGNORANCE”

108. 108
•We will not know unless we begin.
•Howard Zinn
GETTING GOING

109. 109
•Always aim for achievement, and forget
about success.
•Helen Hayes
SUCCESS

110. 110
•You don’t just luck into things … You
build step by step, whether it’s friendships
or opportunities.
•Barbara Bush
LUCK

111. 111
•Opportunity knocks but once.
•Anon
OPPORTUNITY

112. 112
•He who walks in the middle of the road
gets hit from both sides.
•George P. Schultz
COMMITMENT

113. 113
•One arrow does not bring down two birds.
•Turkish proverb
CONCENTRATION

114. 114
•To love what you do and feel that it
matters - how could anything be more
fun?
•Katharine Graham
WORK

115. 115
•If the best man’s faults were written on
his forehead, it would make him pull his
hat over his eyes.
•Gaelic proverb
PERFECTION

116. 116
•An ounce of action is worth a ton of
theory.
•Friedrich Engels
JUST DO THE FOOTWORK,
THEN LET IT GO

117. 117
•The distance doesn’t matter; only the first
step is difficult.
•Madame Marquise du Deffand
TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME

118. 118
•It isn’t hard to be good from time to time
… What’s tough is being good every day.
•Willie Mays
PERSEVERANCE

119. 119
•Every path has its puddle.
•English proverb
PROBLEMS

120. 120
•Our mistakes won’t irreparably damage
our lives unless we let them.
•James E. Sweaney
FAILURES AND MISTAKES

121. 121
•Never complain about your troubles; they
are responsible for more than half of your
income.
•Robert R. Updegraff
THE ADVANTAGES OF
ADVERSITY

122. 122
•When things go wrong, don’t go with
them.
•Anon
REACTING TO EVENTS

123. 123
•A problem is a chance for you to do your
best.
•Duke Ellington
THE ADVANTAGES OF
ADVERSITY

124. 124
•The opposite of having faith is having
self-pity.
•Og Guinness
SELF-PITY

125. 125
•If you do not find peace in yourself, you
will never find it anywhere else.
•Paula A. Bendry
PEACE OF MIND

126. 126
•It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
•Agnes Repplier
HAPPINESS

127. 127
•Into each life some rain must fall, some
days must be dark and dreary.
•Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
ACCEPTANCE

128. 128
•The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness
is the attribute of the strong.
•Mahatma Ghandi
FORGIVENESS

129. 129
•Each day comes bearing its own gifts.
Untie the ribbons.
•Ruth Ann Schabacker
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

130. 130
•We love in others what we lack ourselves,
and would be everything but what we are.
•R.H. Stoddard
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE
OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE

131. 131
•What do we live for if not to make life
less difficult for each other?
•George Eliot
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

132. 132
•There is nothing on this earth more to be
prized than true friendship.
•Saint Thomas Aquinas
FRIENDSHIP

133. 133
•Let God love you through others and let
God love others through you.
•D.M. Street
OUR HIGHER POWER, OR
GOD

134. 134
•I have fought a good fight, I have finished
my course, I have kept the faith.
•2 Tm. 4:7
FAITH AND BELIEF

135. 135
•A fanatic is one who can’t change his
mind and won’t change the subject.
•Sir Winston Churchill
CHANGE

136. 136
•When a man begins to understand
himself, he begins to live.
•Norvin G. McGranahan
SELF-KNOWLEDGE

137. 137
•Do not wish to be anything but what you
are.
•Saint Francis de Sales
SELF-ACCEPTANCE

138. 138
•As soon as you trust yourself, you will
know how to live.
•Johann von Goethe
SELF-CONFIDENCE

139. 139
•The best place to find a helping hand is at
the end of your own arm.
•Swedish proverb
SELF-RELIANCE

140. 140
•There is only one meaning of life, the act
of living itself.
•Erich Fromm
SIMPLICITY

141. 141
•We die daily. Happy those who daily
come to life as well.
•George MacDonald
ONE DAY

142. 142
•Your past is always going to be the way it
was. Stop trying to change it.
•Anon
YESTERDAY: THE PAST

143. 143
•Seize the day, and put the least possible
trust in tomorrow.
•Horace
TODAY: THE PRESENT

144. 144
•If God adds another day to our life, let us
receive it gladly.
•Marcus Annaeus Seneca
MORNINGS

145. 145
•Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
•Eph. 14:26
EVENINGS

146. 146
•I never think of the future. It comes soon
enough.
•Albert Einstein
TOMORROW: THE FUTURE

147. 147
•God grant us patience!
•William Shakespeare
DIFFICULT DAYS

148. 148
•Change your thoughts and you change
your world.
•Norman Vincent Peale
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS

149. 149
•The world belongs to the enthusiast who
keeps cool.
•William McFee
ENTHUSIASM

150. 150
•Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-
esteem.
•Eric Hoffer
CHANGE

151. 151
•We all live under the same sky, but we
don’t all have the same horizon.
•Konrad Adenauer
VISUALIZATION

152. 152
•A good example is the best sermon.
•Anon
ROLE MODELS

153. 153
•Because things are the way they are,
things will not stay the way they are.
•Bertolt Brecht
CHANGE

154. 154
•One forgives to the degree that one loves.
•Francois de La Rochefoucauld
FORGIVENESS

155. 155
•The conclusions of passion are the only
reliable ones.
•Soren Kierkegaard
INSTINCTS

156. 156
•He who walks in another’s tracks leaves
no footprints.
•Joan L. Brannon
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR
US

157. 157
•We talk on principle, but we act on
interest.
•Walter Savage Landor
MOTIVATION

158. 158
•Growth begins when we start to accept
our own weakness.
•Jean Vanier
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

159. 159
•You have to have a dream so you can get
up in the morning.
•Billy Wilder
GOALS

160. 160
•Do not think of all your anxieties, you
will only make yourself ill.
•Shih King
FEAR

161. 161
•Worry often gives a small thing a big
shadow.
•Swedish proverb
WORRY

162. 162
•The only certainty is that nothing is
certain.
•Pliny, the Elder
DOUBTS AND
UNCERTAINTIES

163. 163
•No one can build her security upon the
nobleness of another person.
•Willa Cather
SECURITY

164. 164
•Unless you enter the tiger’s den, you
cannot take the cubs.
•Japanese proverb
RISKS

165. 165
•Confidence … is directness and courage
in meeting the facts of life.
•John Dewey
COURAGE

166. 166
•Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to
grow on a branch that is too weak to bear
it.
•Victor Hugo
WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO
HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF
US

167. 167
•No one knows what he can do until he
tries.
•Publilius Syrus
“IGNORANCE”

168. 168
•If we really want to live, we’d better start
at once to try.
•W.H. Auden
GETTING GOING

169. 169
•Before everything else, getting ready is
the secret of success.
•Henry Ford
SUCCESS

170. 170
•I was seldom able to see an opportunity
until it had ceased to be one.
•Mark Twain
OPPORTUNITY

171. 171
•If you don’t stand for something, you’ll
fall for anything.
•Michael Evans
COMMITMENT

172. 172
•Striving for success without hard work is
like trying to harvest where you haven’t
planted.
•David Bly
WORK

173. 173
•Perfection never exists in reality, but only
in our dreams.
•Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs
PERFECTION

174. 174
•God doesn’t make orange juice, God
makes oranges.
•Jesse Jackson
JUST DO THE FOOTWORK,
THEN LET IT GO

175. 175
•The distance doesn’t matter; only the first
step is difficult.
•Madame Marquise du Deffand
TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME

176. 176
•It does not matter how slowly you go, so
long as you do not stop.
•Confucius
PERSEVERANCE

177. 177
•It isn’t hard to be good from time to time
… What’s tough is being good every day.
•Willie Mays
PERSEVERANCE

178. 178
•The only man who makes no mistakes is
the man who never does anything.
•Eleanor Roosevelt
FAILURES AND MISTAKES

179. 179
•Were it not for my little jokes, I could not
bear the burdens of this office.
•Abraham Lincoln
REACTING TO EVENTS

180. 180
•Sadness is almost never anything but a
form of fatigue.
•André Gide
SELF-PITY

181. 181
•Peace is not the absence of conflict, but
the presence of God no matter what the
conflict.
•Anon
PEACE OF MIND

182. 182
•Happiness depends upon ourselves.
•Aristotle
HAPPINESS

183. 183
•One cannot get through life without pain
… What we can do is choose how to use
the pain life presents to us.
•Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
ACCEPTANCE

184. 184
•Judge not, that ye be not judged.
•Mt. 7:1
FORGIVENESS

185. 185
•The mere sense of living is joy enough.
•Emily Dickinson
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

186. 186
•Charity begins at home, and usually stays
there.
•Elbert Hubbard
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

187. 187
•Good friends, good books and a sleepy
conscience: this is the ideal life.
•Mark Twain
HAPPINESS

188. 188
•When good cheer is lacking, our friends
will be packing.
•Anon
FRIENDSHIP

189. 189
•Do you prefer that you be right, or that
you be happy?
•A Course In Miracles
HAPPINESS

190. 190
•Hope is like a road in the country; there
was never a road, but when many people
walk on it, the road comes into existence.
•Lin Yutang
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS

191. 191
•The whole meaning of prayer is that we
may know God.
•Oswald Chambers
PRAYER

192. 192
•The great thing in this world is not so
much where we are, but in what direction
we are moving.
•Oliver Wendell Holmes
PERSEVERANCE

193. 193
•Do not wish to be anything but what you
are.
•Saint Francis de Sales
SELF-ACCEPTANCE

194. 194
•Happiness sneaks in through a door you
didn’t know you left open.
•John Barrymore
HAPPINESS

195. 195
•If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be
surprised. You’ll get it.
•Malcolm Forbes
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS

196. 196
•Happiness is often the result of being too
busy to be miserable.
•Anon
HAPPINESS

197. 197
•We die daily. Happy those who daily
come to life as well.
•George MacDonald
ONE DAY

198. 198
•Life’s under no obligation to give us what
we expect.
•Margaret Mitchell
ACCEPTANCE

199. 199
•Forgive all who have offended you, not
for them, but for yourself.
•Harriet Uts Nelson
FORGIVENESS

200. 200
•Better a little fire to warm us than a great
one to burn us.
•Thomas Fuller
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

201. 201
•We are cold to others only when we are
dull in ourselves.
•William Hazlitt
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

202. 202
•I never think of the future. It comes soon
enough.
•Albert Einstein
TOMORROW: THE FUTURE

203. 203
•We secure our friends not by accepting
favors but by doing them.
•Thucydides
FRIENDSHIP

204. 204
•You can promote your healing by your
thinking.
•James E. Sweeney
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS

205. 205
•When the knees are not often bent, the
feet soon slide.
•Anon
PRAYER

206. 206
•All human wisdom is summed up in two
words - wait and hope.
•Alexandre Dumas
HOPE

207. 207
•Happy he who learns to bear what he
cannot change!
•J.C.F. von Schiller
ACCEPTANCE

208. 208
•There is nobody who totally lacks the
courage to change.
•Rollo May
CHANGE

209. 209
•Often greater risk is involved in
postponement than in making a wrong
decision.
•Harry A. Hopf
DECISIONS

210. 210
•They may not deserve forgiveness, but I
do.
•Anon
FORGIVENESS

211. 211
•I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy
than a success at something I hate.
•George Burns
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR
US

212. 212
•For everything you have missed, you have
gained something else.
•Ralph Waldo Emerson
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

213. 213
•Growth begins when we start to accept
our own weakness.
•Jean Vanier
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

214. 214
•Never try to catch two frogs with one
hand.
•Chinese proverb
GOALS

215. 215
•Fear is the absence of faith.
•Paul Tillich
FEAR

216. 216
•Worry often gives a small thing a big
shadow.
•Swedish proverb
WORRY

217. 217
•If you have a job without aggravations,
you don’t have a job.
•Malcolm Forbes
ACCEPTANCE

218. 218
•It is easier to forgive an enemy than a
friend.
•Madame Dorothee Deluzy
FORGIVENESS

219. 219
•Take calculated risks. That is quite
different from being rash.
•General George S. Patton
RISKS

220. 220
•Confidence … is directness and courage
in meeting the facts of life.
•John Dewey
COURAGE

221. 221
•To be upset over what you don’t have is
to waste what you do have.
•Ken Keyes, Jr.
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

222. 222
•From a little spark may burst a mighty
flame.
•Dante Alighieri
TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME

223. 223
•Things turn out best for people who make
the best of the way things turn out.
•Anon
ACCEPTANCE

224. 224
•A strong passion for any object will
ensure success, for the desire of the end
will point out the means.
•William Hazlitt
SUCCESS

225. 225
•I was seldom able to see an opportunity
until it had ceased to be one.
•Mark Twain
OPPORTUNITY

226. 226
•When you pray for anyone you tend to
modify your personal attitude toward him.
•Norman Vincent Peale
FORGIVENESS

227. 227
•We never know the worth of water till the
well is dry.
•English proverb
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

228. 228
•The greatest happiness in the world is to
make others happy.
•Luther Burbank
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

229. 229
•With us is the Lord our God, to help us
and to fight our battles.
•2 Chr.
JUST DO THE FOOTWORK,
THEN LET IT GO

230. 230
•It is better to light a candle than to curse
the darkness.
•Chinese proverb
TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME

231. 231
•It is easier to visit friends than to live with
them.
•Chinese proverb
FRIENDSHIP

232. 232
•There may be those on earth who dress
better or eat better, but those who enjoy
the peace of God sleep better.
•L. Thomas Holdcroft
PEACE OF MIND

233. 233
•Most folks are about as happy as they
make up their minds to be.
•Abraham Lincoln
HAPPINESS

234. 234
•The reasonable man adapts himself to the
world; the unreasonable one persists in
trying to adapt the world to himself.
•George Bernard Shaw
ACCEPTANCE

235. 235
•Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king
or prince to grant a pardon.
•Arthur J. Rehrat
FORGIVENESS

236. 236
•Sometimes the best deals are the ones you
don’t make.
•Bill Veeck
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

237. 237
•The only incurable troubles of the rich are
the troubles that money can’t cure.
•Ogden Nash
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE
OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE

238. 238
•If you judge people, you have no time to
love them.
•Mother Teresa
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

239. 239
•One thing everybody in the world wants
and needs is friendliness.
•William E. Holler
FRIENDSHIP

240. 240
•Talking about God is not at all the same
thing as experiencing God, or acting out
God through our lives.
•Phillip Hewett
OUR HIGHER POWER, OR
GOD

241. 241
•When you cannot pray as you would, pray
as you can.
•Edward M. Goulburn
PRAYER

242. 242
•No one can make you feel inferior
without your consent.
•Eleanor Roosevelt
SELF-ACCEPTANCE

243. 243
•Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
•Thomas Merton
SELF-CONFIDENCE

244. 244
•The greatest griefs are those we cause
ourselves.
•Sophocles
SELF-RELIANCE

245. 245
•To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep
putting oil in it.
•Mother Teresa
SIMPLICITY

246. 246
•The most important thing in our lives is
what we are doing now.
•Anon
ONE DAY

247. 247
•Never let yesterday use up today.
•Richard H. Nelson
YESTERDAY: THE PAST

248. 248
•Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray
when the sun shines.
•Satchel Paige
PRAYER

249. 249
•When you rise in the morning, form a
resolution to make the day a happy one
for a fellow creature.
•Sydney Smith
MORNINGS

250. 250
•Most of the time we think we’re sick it’s
all in the mind.
•Thomas Wolfe
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS

251. 251
•Morale is the greatest single factor in
successful wars.
•Dwight D. Eisenhower
ENTHUSIASM

252. 252
•I’d rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a
millionaire in any other city.
•William A. Hulbert
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR
US

253. 253
•Who is the wise man? He who sees
what’s going to be born.
•Solomon
VISUALIZATION

254. 254
•If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got
to put up with a few blisters.
•Abigail Van Buren
ACCEPTANCE

255. 255
•Nothing in this world is permanent.
•German proverb
CHANGE

256. 256
•It is the heart always that sees, before the
head can see.
•Thomas Carlyle
INSTINCTS

257. 257
•The most exhausting thing in life is being
insincere.
•Anne Morrow Lindbergh
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR
US

258. 258
•A man will fight harder for his interests
than for his rights.
•Napoleon Bonaparte
MOTIVATION

259. 259
•We cannot all be masters.
•William Shakespeare
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

260. 260
•Unless you give yourself to some great
cause, you haven’t even begun to live.
•William P. Merrill
GOALS

261. 261
•If you are afraid for your future, you don’t
have a present.
•James Petersen
FEAR

262. 262
•Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
but only saps today of its strength.
•A.J. Cronin
WORRY

263. 263
•If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the
uncertainties, it may be too late.
•Lee Iacocca
DOUBTS AND
UNCERTAINTIES

264. 264
•In order to find the edge, you must risk
going over the edge.
•Dennis Dugan
RISKS

265. 265
•Knowledge of sin is the beginning of
salvation.
•Marcus Annaeus Seneca
COURAGE

266. 266
•Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor
the best opportunities; they will never
come.
•Janet Erskine Stuart
GETTING GOING

267. 267
•Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what
I have before time forces me to appreciate
what I had.
•Susan L. Lenzkes
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

268. 268
•It is in self-limitation that a master first
shows himself.
•Johann von Goethe
GOALS

269. 269
•Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
•Mark Twain
RISKS

270. 270
•He has enough who is contented with
little.
•Anon
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

271. 271
•There are things I can’t force. I must
adjust.
•C.M. Ward
ACCEPTANCE

272. 272
•The great thing in this world is not so
much where we are, but in what direction
we are moving.
•Oliver Wendell Holmes
PERSEVERANCE

273. 273
•The only man who makes no mistakes is
the man who never does anything.
•Eleanor Roosevelt
FAILURES AND MISTAKES

274. 274
•Who does not thank for little will not
thank for much.
•Estonian proverb
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

275. 275
•Who seeks a faultless friend remains
friendless.
•Turkish proverb
FRIENDSHIP

276. 276
•No one gives joy or sorrow … We gather
the consequences of our own deeds.
•Garuda Purana
HAPPINESS

277. 277
•The most popular persons are those who
take the world as it is, who find the least
fault.
•Charles Dudley Warner
ACCEPTANCE

278. 278
•Revenge could steal a man’s life until
there was nothing left but emptiness.
•Louis L’Amour
FORGIVENESS

279. 279
•That which does not kill me makes me
stronger.
•Friedrich Nietzsche
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

280. 280
•To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark
of a Christian - to help them is.
•Frank A. Clark
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

281. 281
•I must govern the clock, not be governed
by it.
•Golda Meir
ONE DAY

282. 282
•Friendship is a plant which must be often
watered.
•Anon
FRIENDSHIP

283. 283
•Day’s sweetest moments are at dawn.
•Ella Wheeler Wilcox
MORNINGS

284. 284
•Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all
circumstances give thanks.
•The Desert Fathers
PRAYER

285. 285
•To dream of the person you would like to
be is to waste the person you are.
•Anon
SELF-ACCEPTANCE

286. 286
•A wise man will make more opportunities
than he finds.
•Francis Bacon
SELF-RELIANCE

287. 287
•If you aren’t going all the way, why go at
all?
•Joe Namath
SIMPLICITY

288. 288
•More than enough is too much.
•Anon
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

289. 289
•The past is a work of art, free of
irrelevancies and loose ends.
•Max Beerbohm
YESTERDAY: THE PAST

290. 290
•So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by
today’s economies.
•John Mason Brown
TODAY: THE PRESENT

291. 291
•With every rising of the sun, think of your
life as just begun.
•Anon
MORNINGS

292. 292
•Hope is like a road in the country; there
was never a road, but when many people
walk on it, the road comes into existence.
•Lin Yutang
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS

293. 293
•The will to conquer is the first condition
of victory.
•Marshal Ferdinand Foch
ENTHUSIASM

294. 294
•Hope sees the invisible, feels the
intangible and achieves the impossible.
•Anon
HOPE

295. 295
•When you’re through changing, you’re
through.
•Bruce Barton
CHANGE

296. 296
•Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is
genius.
•George Bernard Shaw
INSTINCTS

297. 297
•Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
weep and you weep alone.
•Ella Wheeler Wilcox
FRIENDSHIP

298. 298
•Not he who has little, but he who wishes
more, is poor.
•Marcus Annaeus Seneca
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

299. 299
•The fewer the words, the better the
prayer.
•Martin Luther
PRAYER

300. 300
•The greatest mistake you can make is to
be continually fearing you will make one.
•Elbert Hubbard
FEAR

301. 301
•The only way to make a man trustworthy
is to trust him.
•Henry L. Stimson
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS

302. 302
•The difference between one man and
another is not mere ability … it is energy.
•Thomas Arnold
ENTHUSIASM

303. 303
•And the trouble is, if you don’t risk
anything, you risk even more.
•Erica Jong
RISKS

304. 304
•You’re only as sick as your secrets.
•Anon
COURAGE

305. 305
•Courage to start and willingness to keep
everlasting at it are the requisites for
success.
•Alonzo Newton Benn
GETTING GOING

306. 306
•Success is going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
•Sir Winston Churchill
SUCCESS

307. 307
•Whether you are really right or not
doesn’t matter, it’s the belief that counts.
•Robertson Davies
COMMITMENT

308. 308
•Fear is the dark room in which negatives
are developed.
•Anon
FEAR

309. 309
•The greater the obstacle, the more glory in
overcoming it.
•Moliere
RISKS

310. 310
•Amazing things start happening when we
start praying!
•Anon
PRAYER

311. 311
•Success comes before work only in the
dictionary.
•Anon
SUCCESS

312. 312
•Humor acts to relieve fear.
•Dr. William F. Fry, Jr.
FEAR

313. 313
•Life is a romantic business, but you have
to make the romance.
•Oliver Wendell Holmes
HAPPINESS

314. 314
•He is happy whose circumstances suit his
temper; but he is more excellent who can
suit his temper to any circumstances.
•David Hume
ACCEPTANCE

315. 315
•Revenge could steal a man’s life until
there was nothing left but emptiness.
•Louis L’Amour
FORGIVENESS

316. 316
•Too many people miss the silver lining
because they’re expecting gold.
•Maurice Setter
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

317. 317
•Real unselfishness consists in sharing the
interests of others.
•George Santayana
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

318. 318
•They are rich who have true friends.
•Thomas Fuller
FRIENDSHIP

319. 319
•I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw
a man who had no feet.
•Ancient Persian saying
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

320. 320
•Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all
circumstances give thanks.
•The Desert Fathers
PRAYER

321. 321
•You grow up the day you have your first
real laugh at yourself.
•Ethel Barrymore
SELF-ACCEPTANCE

322. 322
•God gives every bird its food, but he does
not throw it into the nest.
•Josiah Holland
SELF-RELIANCE

323. 323
•What would life be if we had no courage
to attempt anything?
•Vincent van Gogh
COURAGE

324. 324
•Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and
building your wings on the way down.
•Ray Bradbury
RISKS

325. 325
•Friendship is like money, easier made
than kept.
•Samuel Butler
FRIENDSHIP

326. 326
•If you spend your whole life waiting for
the storm, you’ll never enjoy the
sunshine.
•Morris West
TODAY: THE PRESENT

327. 327
•Cold prayers shall never have any warm
answers.
•Thomas B. Brooks
PRAYER

328. 328
•A man who dares to waste one hour of
life has not discovered the value of life.
•Charles Darwin
ONE DAY

329. 329
•The quality of our expectations
determines the quality of our actions.
•André Godin
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS

330. 330
•He who begins many things finishes but
few.
•Italian proverb
GOALS

331. 331
•No great things are done more through
courage than through wisdom.
•German proverb
COURAGE

332. 332
•We are betrayed by what is false within.
•George Meredith
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR
US

333. 333
•Results are what you expect;
consequences are what you get.
•Anon
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

334. 334
•The soul that has no established aim loses
itself.
•Michel de Montaigne
GOALS

335. 335
•A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone
else is afraid of winning.
•Billie Jean King
FEAR

336. 336
•The best mirror is an old friend.
•Anon
FRIENDSHIP

337. 337
•I firmly believe a great many prayers are
not answered because we are not willing
to forgive someone.
•Dwight L. Moody
PRAYER

338. 338
•Make the most of today. Translate your
good intentions to actual deeds.
•Grenville Kleiser
ONE DAY

339. 339
•God grant me the courage not to give up
what I think is right, even though I think it
is hopeless.
•Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
COURAGE

340. 340
•Hold a true friend with both your hands.
•Nigerian proverb
FRIENDSHIP

341. 341
•Every day is a messenger of God.
•Russian proverb
ONE DAY

342. 342
•To accept whatever comes, regardless of
the consequences, is to be unafraid.
•John Cage
COURAGE

343. 343
•I believe half the unhappiness in life
comes from people being afraid to go
straight at things.
•William J. Locke
GOALS

344. 344
•If you want to make enemies, try to
change something.
•Woodrow Wilson
CHANGE

345. 345
•One who’s our friend is fond of us; one
who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our
friend.
•Marcus Annaeus Seneca
FRIENDSHIP

346. 346
•How unhappy is he who cannot forgive
himself.
•Publilius Syrus
HAPPINESS

347. 347
•Very often a change of self is needed
more than a change of scene.
•Arthur Christopher Benson
CHANGE

348. 348
•Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
•Isaac Friedmann
FORGIVENESS

349. 349
•If you count all your assets, you always
show a profit.
•Robert Quillen
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

350. 350
•It is more blessed to give than to receive.
•Acts 20:35
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

351. 351
•A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when
they’re not so good, and sympathizes with
your problems when they’re not so bad.
•Arnold H. Glasow
FRIENDSHIP

352. 352
•We have to pray with our eyes on God,
not on the difficulties.
•Oswald Chambers
PRAYER

353. 353
•Why should I deem myself to be a chisel,
when I could be the artist?
•J.C.F. von Schiller
GOALS

354. 354
•Have but few friends, though many
acquaintances.
•Anon
FRIENDSHIP

355. 355
•Once you say you’re going to settle for
second, that’s what happens to you.
•John F. Kennedy
GOALS

356. 356
•A man is known by the company he
keeps.
•Anon
FRIENDSHIP

357. 357
•A person can grow only as much as his
horizon allows.
•John Powell
GOALS

358. 358
•With every rising of the sun, think of your
life as just begun.
•Anon
MORNINGS

359. 359
•There are things I can’t force. I must
adjust.
•C.M. Ward
ACCEPTANCE

360. 360
•It is fatal to enter any war without the will
to win it.
•General Douglas MacArthur
ENTHUSIASM

361. 361
•Every saint has a past, and every sinner
has a future.
•Oscar Wilde
CHANGE

362. 362
•A happy life is one which is in accordance
with its own nature.
•Marcus Annaeus Seneca
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR
US

363. 363
•Concentrate on finding your goal, then
concentrate on reaching it.
•Colonel Michael Friedman
GOALS

364. 364
•The habit of doing one’s duty drives away
fear.
•Charles Baudelaire
FEAR

365. 365
•Worry is interest paid on trouble before it
comes due.
•William Ralph Inge
WORRY

366. 366
•Action will remove the doubts that theory
cannot solve.
•Tehyi Hsieh
DOUBTS AND
UNCERTAINTIES

367. 367
•The only incurable troubles of the rich are
the troubles that money can’t cure.
•Ogden Nash
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE
OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE