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Thursday, Apr 24, 2025“If you would be loved, love and be lovable. ”
Benjamin Franklin
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1706 - 1790)
Wednesday, Apr 23, 2025“People are frugal in guarding their personal property but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy. ”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca aka Seneca the Younger
Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist.
(4 BC - 65 AD)
Tuesday, Apr 22, 2025“Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.”
Justin Brooks Atkinson
American Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent and theater critic.
(1894 - 1984)
Monday, Apr 21, 2025“"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement." ”
William Clement Stone
American businessman, philanthropist, and author.
(1902 - 2002)
Friday, Apr 18, 2025“The death of the Lord our God should not be a cause of shame for us; rather, it should be our greatest hope, our greatest glory. In taking upon himself the death that he found in us, he has most faithfully promised to give us life in him, such as we cannot have of ourselves.”
Saint Augustine
Famous sinner turned Saint & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(354AD - 430AD)
Thursday, Apr 17, 2025“Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.”
Roger Sherman
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1721 - 1793)
Wednesday, Apr 16, 2025“The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint. ”
Léon Bloy
French novelist and essayist.
(1846 - 1917)
Tuesday, Apr 15, 2025“Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness. ”
Lao Tzu
Chinese philosopher and writer.
(571 BC - 471 BC)
Monday, Apr 14, 2025“You cannot become fully human until you start living for others. ”
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author and Nobel laureate.
(1934 - present)
Friday, Apr 11, 2025“Put yourself in God's hands; He abandons no one.”
Saint Andre Bessette
Canadian lay brother of the Congregation of Holy Cross credited with thousands of miraculous healings associated with his pious devotion to Saint Joseph.
(1845 - 1937)
Thursday, Apr 10, 2025“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”
John Quincy Adams
Sixth President of the United States of America.
(1767 - 1848)
Wednesday, Apr 09, 2025“Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. ”
Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy
American philanthropist, socialite, and matriarch of the Kennedy family.
(1890 - 1995)
Tuesday, Apr 08, 2025“You give bureaucrats power over others...[and] more than any single exploitive tyrannical force, the possibility of what government can do is absolutely terrifying. ”
Millicent Vernon Fenwick
American fashion editor, politician, and diplomat.
(1910 - 1992)
Monday, Apr 07, 2025“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Marie Curie (aka Madam Curie)
Polish physicist and chemist. The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.
(1867 - 1934)
Friday, Apr 04, 2025“A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head. ”
Saint John Eudes
French priest and founder of both the Order of Our Lady of Charity & Congregation of Jesus and Mary.
(1601 - 1680)
Thursday, Apr 03, 2025“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today. ”
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States of America.
(1809 - 1865)
Wednesday, Apr 02, 2025“"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."”
James Allen
British philosophical writer.
(1864 - 1912)
Tuesday, Apr 01, 2025“The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. ”
Ludwig von Mises
Austrian historian, logician, and sociologist.
(1881 - 1973)
