Thought for Today
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“Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people,
nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts.
It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.”
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~William Temple~
Thought for Today
“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs
as clothes do against cold.
For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases,
it will have no power to hurt you.
So in like manner you must grow in patience
when you meet with great wrongs,
and they will then be powerless
to vex your mind.”
Thought for Today
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It is the highest form of self-respect
to admit our errors and mistakes
and make amends for them.
To make a mistake
is only an error in judgment,
but to adhere to it when it is discovered
shows infirmity of character.
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~Dale E. Turner~
Thought for Today
“All schools, all colleges, have two great functions:
to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge.
The theological knowledge which they conceal
cannot justly be regarded as less valuable
than that which they reveal.
That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries
it can profit him to know
that the bottom half of it is rotten.”
Thought for Today
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If you hear a voice within you say
“you cannot paint,”
then by all means paint,
and that voice will be silenced.
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~Vincent Van Gogh~
Thought for Today
Enduring habits I hate…
Yes, at the very bottom of my soul
I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness
and everything about me that is imperfect,
because this sort of thing leaves me
with a hundred backdoors through which
I can escape from enduring habits.
Thought for Today
In every work of genius,
we recognize our own rejected thoughts;
they come back to us
with a certain alienated majesty.