Thought of the Moment

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

- Lyman Abbott Read more

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Read more

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

- John W. Gardner Read more

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men. Read more

This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

- George Bernard Shaw Read more

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

- Simone Signoret Read more

The best thing in the world is getting up each day looking forward to what you do.

- Patricia Koblizek Read more

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

- Rick Warren Read more

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Read more

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.

- Rick Warren, in The Purpose-Driven Life Read more