Quote of the Day -- Charles Blow

I had spent my whole life trying to fit in, but it would take the rest of my life to realize that some men are just meant to stand out.

-- Charles Blow

Quote of the Day -- Desmond Tutu

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

-- Desmond Tutu

Quote of the Day -- Dag Hammarskjold

 We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

-- Dag Hammarrskjold

Quote of the Day -- Rabindranath Tagore

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.

I awoke and saw that life was service.

I acted and behold, service was joy.

 Rabindranth Tagore

Quote of the Day -- Gretchen Rubin

Do nothing in excess, not even moderation.

-- Gretchen Rubin

Quote of the Day -- Emile Durkheim

Liberty is the daughter of authority properly understood. For to be free is not to do what one pleases; it is to be the master of oneself, it is to know how to act within reason and to do one's duty.

-- Emile Durkheim

Quote of the Day -- Isabel Wilkerson

The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse.

-- Isabel Wilkerson

Quote of the Day -- Potter Stewart

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do

-- Potter Stewart

Quote of the Day -- Laozi

Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

-- Laozi

Quote of the Day -- Lucille Clifton

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

-- Lucille Clifton

Quote of the Day -- Edith Eger

How easily a life can become a litany of guilt and regret, a song that keeps echoing with the same chorus, with the inability to forgive ourselves. How easily the life we didn’t live becomes the only life we prize. How easily we are seduced by the fantasy that we are in control, that we were ever in control, that the things we could or should have done or said have the power, if only we had done or said them, to cure pain, to erase suffering, to vanish loss. How easily we can cling to—worship—the choices we think we could or should have made.

-- Edith Eger

Quote of the Day -- Robert Zoellick

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fiber and destroys trust.

-- Robert Zoellick

Quote of the Day -- Martin Luther King

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

-- Martin Luther King

Quote of the Day -- Marcus Aurelius

Such as are your habitual thoughts; such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

-- Marcus Aurelius

Quote of the Day -- Linda Ellis -- The Dash

 

I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend. He referred to the dates on the tombstone from the beginning… to the end.

He noted that first came the date of birth and spoke of the following date with tears, but he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years.

For that dash represents all the time they spent alive on earth and now only those who loved them know what that little line is worth.

For it matters not, how much we own, the cars… the house… the cash. What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.

So think about this long and hard; are there things you’d like to change? For you never know how much time is left that still can be rearranged.

To be less quick to anger and show appreciation more and love the people in our lives like we’ve never loved before.

If we treat each other with respect and more often wear a smile… remembering that this special dash might only last a little while.

So when your eulogy is being read, with your life’s actions to rehash, would you be proud of the things they say about how you lived your dash?

Quote of the Day -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of the Day -- Anne Bradstreet

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

-- Anne Bradstreet

Quote of the Day -- Paulline Phillips (Dear Abby)

The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.

-- Pauline Phillips (Dear Abby)

Quote of the Day -- George Washington

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

-- George Washington

Quote of the Day -- Goethe

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

-- Goethe