Thought for the Day

“Faith is taking the first step
even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr

Born January 15, 1929 Atlanta, Georgia
Died April 4, 1968 (aged 39) Memphis, Tennessee

An American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement. His main legacy is securing progress on civil rights in the United States. Because of this work, he has become a human rights icon.
In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means.


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Thought for the Day

“All wish to possess knowledge,
but few,
comparatively speaking,
are willing to pay the price.”

~ Juvenal

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis

 Known in English as Juvenal, a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD, author of the Satires. The details of the author’s life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD fix his terminus post quem (earliest date of composition).

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Thought for the Day

“The pessimist complains about the wind;

the optimist expects it to change;

the realist adjusts the sails.”

~ William Arthur Ward

*William Arthur Ward (1921–1994)

Author of Fountains of Faith, is one of America’s most quoted writers of inspirational maxims. More than 100 articles, poems and meditations written by Ward have been published in such magazines as Reader’s Digest, This Week, The Upper Room, and more.

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Saturday April 2nd 2011

Thought for the Day

“Nature, time and patience
are three great physicians.”

~ H.G. Bohn
(1796-1884)

Henry George Bohn

Born: January 4, 1796  
Died: August 22, 1884

A British publisher. He is principally remembered for the Libraries which he inaugurated: these were begun in 1846 and comprised editions of standard works and translations, dealing with history, science, classics, theology and archaeology.

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Friday April 1st 2011

Thought for the Day

“To say nothing,
especially when speaking,
is half the art of diplomacy.”

~ Will Durant
(1885-1981)

*William James Durant

 Born: November 5, 1885 North Adams, Massachusetts
Died: November 7, 1981 (Age 96) Los Angeles, California

An American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and published between 1935 and 1975. He was earlier noted for The Story of Philosophy, written in 1926. Will and Ariel Durant were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1968 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977.

 

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Thursday March 31st 2011

Thought for the Day

“A person often meets his destiny
on the road he took to avoid it.”

~ Jean de La Fontaine
(1621-1695)

Jean de La Fontaine *

Born: July 8, 1621 Château-Thierry, Champagne
Died: April 13, 1695 (Age 73) Paris, France

The most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional languages.

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Wednesday March 30th 2011

Thought for the Day

“Anger is the most impotent of passions.
It effects nothing it goes about,
and hurts the one who is possessed by it
more than the one against whom it is directed.”

~ Carl Sandburg
(1878-1967)

Carl Sandburg

Born: January 6, 1878 Galesburg, Illinois
Died: July 22, 1967 Flat Rock, North Carolina

An American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln.

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