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Friday, May 27, 2022“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
Saint Teresa of Calcutta (aka Mother Teresa)
Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity.
(1910 - 1997)
Thursday, May 26, 2022“The rights essential to happiness...We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.”
John Dickinson
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1732 - 1808)
Wednesday, May 25, 2022“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
James Joyce
Irish novelist, poet and literary critic.
(1882 - 1941)
Monday, May 23, 2022“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
Maya Angelou
American poet, memoirist and civil rights activist.
(1928 - 2014)
Friday, May 20, 2022“Human life is sacred: from its inception it reveals the creating hand of God.”
Saint John XXIII
Bishop of Rome & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1881 - 1963)
Thursday, May 19, 2022“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”
Thomas Paine
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1737 - 1809)
Wednesday, May 18, 2022“I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better.”
Henry David Thoreau
American naturalist, essayist, poet and philosopher.
(1817 - 1862)
Tuesday, May 17, 2022“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens...Lenin was certainty right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.”
John Maynard Keynes, CB FBA
British economist.
(1883 - 1946)
Monday, May 16, 2022“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”
Bobby Unser
American automobile racer and television broadcaster.
(1934 - 2021)
Friday, May 13, 2022“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Herman Hesse
German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter.
(1877 - 1962)
Thursday, May 12, 2022“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father & third President of the United States of America.
(1743 - 1826)
Wednesday, May 11, 2022“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman.
(1847 - 1931)
Tuesday, May 10, 2022“The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.”
Simone Weil
French philosopher, mystic and political activist.
(1909 - 1943)
Monday, May 09, 2022“Almost nothing material is needed for a happy life, for he who has understood existence.”
Marcus Aurelius
Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher.
(121 AD - 180 AD)
Friday, May 06, 2022“When we are living in the world, we can easily take on the mindset of a secular society. It is important for us to cultivate in our lives, with great care, God's way of looking at things and life in general. His Word guides us.”
Reverend Thomas J. Donaghy
American priest, teacher and member of the Congregation of Christian Brothers.
(1928 - 2018)
Thursday, May 05, 2022“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
James Madison
One of the Founding Fathers and fourth president of the United States of America.
(1851 - 1836)
Wednesday, May 04, 2022“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Mohandas Gandhi aka Mahatma Gandhi
Preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India, also known as the Father of the Nation of India.
(1869 - 1948)
Tuesday, May 03, 2022“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
Leo Tolstoy
Russian Count and writer nominated multiple times for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize.
(1828 - 1910)
Monday, May 02, 2022“Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.”
Arnold H. Glasgow
American entrepreneur, publisher and author.
(1905 - 1998)
