Thought for the Day

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Surround yourself with positive people who are going to push you toward greatness.

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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

William Shakespeare

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The Christmas that began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of men.

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Are the roses that have the thorns or are the thorns that have the roses.

Ricardo Ferreira

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Here are some quotes (although you will note they are not all in accord with each other):

"Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions." David Borenstein

“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.” Bertrand Russell

“Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.” Roger Ebert

“The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.” Marya Mannes

"Emotions have taught mankind to reason." -Marquis De Vauvenargues

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. ~Aldous Huxley

"Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions." ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

"The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where. " Dorothy Thompson

"A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail." ~La Bruyère, Characters, 1688

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand that uses it bleed." Rabindranath Tagore.

"The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it." ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

"The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational."
A. N. Wilson

"Better to be without logic than without feeling." Charlotte Brontë

"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end." Unknown

"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."- Samuel Butler

"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." Andre Gide

"Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out." Luigi Pirandello.

"Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?" Robert A Heinlein

"Logic is easier said than done, emotions are easier done than said." Ricardo Ferreira

"Man is young as long as he can repeat his emotions; woman, as long as she can inspire them." Thomas Szas

"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything." Nikola Tesla


"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones." Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic." Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul." Arnold Bennett

"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love." Oscar Wilde

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use." Ernest Hemingway

"But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there." Ernest Hemingway

"Control your emotion or they will control you." Bertrand Russell

“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge” Plato

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary” Mark Twain

"I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble." Angelina Jolie

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." Albert Einstein

[Duke of Buckingham]

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Joseph Stiglitz

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Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Epictetus

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“Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.”

Lao Tzu



Laozi (Chinese: 老子; pinyin: Lǎozǐ; Wade–Giles: Lao Tzu; also romanized as Lao Tse, Lao Tu, Lao-Tsu, Laotze, Laosi, Laocius, and other variations) (fl. 6th century BCE) was a philosopher of ancient China, best known as the author of the Tao Te Ching (often simply referred to as Laozi). His association with the Tào Té Chīng has led him to be traditionally considered the founder of philosophical Taoism (pronounced as "Daoism"). He is also revered as a deity in most religious forms of Taoist philosophy, which often refers to Laozi as Taishang Laojun, or "One of the Three Pure Ones".

According to Chinese traditions, Laozi lived in the 6th century BCE. Some historians contend that he actually lived in the 5th–4th century BCE, concurrent with the Hundred Schools of Thought and Warring States Period, while some others argue that Laozi is a synthesis of multiple historical figures or that he is a mythical figure.

A central figure in Chinese culture, both nobility and common people claim Laozi in their lineage. He was honored as an ancestor of the Tang imperial family, and was granted the title Táishāng xuānyuán huángdì, meaning "Supreme Mysterious and Primordial Emperor". Throughout history, Laozi's work has been embraced by various anti-authoritarian movements.

Laozi is traditionally regarded as the founder of Taoism, intimately connected with the Daodejing and "primordial" (or "original") Daoism. Popular ("religious") Daoism typically presents the Jade Emperor as the official head deity. Intellectual ("elite") Daoists, such as the Celestial Masters sect, usually present Laozi (Laojun, "Lord Lao") and the Three Pure Ones at the top of the pantheon of deities.