Reflection for the Day 2008-10-03T15:18:01Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2008://1 Movable Type Copyright (c) 2008, tbf March 14, 2008 2008-10-03T15:18:01Z 2008-03-14T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2008://1.1512 2008-03-14T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty - not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
  American writer (b. 1929)
]]> March 13, 2008 2008-10-06T18:36:19Z 2008-03-13T05:00:01Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2008://1.1511 2008-03-13T05:00:01Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com A man's life is dyed the color of his imagination.
- Marcus Aurelius
  Roman emperor & philosopher (121-180 AD)
]]> March 12, 2008 2008-10-03T15:03:45Z 2008-03-12T05:00:01Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2008://1.1510 2008-03-12T05:00:01Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  American jurist (1841-1935)]]> March 11, 2008 2008-10-03T14:56:46Z 2008-03-11T05:00:01Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2008://1.1509 2008-03-11T05:00:01Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
- Balthazar Gracian
  Spanish writer (1601-1658)
]]> March 10, 2008 2008-10-03T14:51:50Z 2008-03-10T05:00:01Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2008://1.1508 2008-03-10T05:00:01Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

   I Ching, Chinese classic text 771-551 BC)]]> March 8, 2008 2008-10-02T16:52:10Z 2008-03-08T05:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2008://1.1507 2008-03-08T05:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com I never let school interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain
  American writer (1835-1910)
]]> March 7, 2008 2008-10-02T16:51:45Z 2008-03-07T05:00:01Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2008://1.1506 2008-03-07T05:00:01Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
  American writer (1897-1962)
]]> March 1, 2008 2008-10-06T21:58:59Z 2008-03-01T05:00:01Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2008://1.1513 2008-03-01T05:00:01Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com To look backward for awhile is to refresh the eye, to restore it, to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
-Margaret Fairless Barber
  British writer (1868-1901)
]]> February 29, 2008 2008-10-06T17:11:51Z 2008-02-29T05:00:01Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2008://1.1514 2008-02-29T05:00:01Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
- Matsuo Basho
  Japanese poet (1644-1694)
]]> February 28, 2008 2008-09-26T20:04:12Z 2008-02-28T06:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2008://1.1505 2008-02-28T06:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
- Robert Fripp
  British musician (b. 1946)
]]> February 25, 2008 2008-09-26T19:44:29Z 2008-02-28T05:00:01Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2008://1.1502 2008-02-28T05:00:01Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com One of the best things about love is just recognizing a man's step when he climbs the stairs.
- Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
  French writer (1873-1954)
]]> February 27, 2008 2008-09-26T19:55:38Z 2008-02-27T06:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2008://1.1504 2008-02-27T06:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com A diplomat is a fellow who lets you do all the talking while he gets what he wants.
- Elbert Hubbard
  American writer & publisher (1856-1915)
]]> February 26, 2008 2008-10-02T16:50:59Z 2008-02-26T06:00:00Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2008://1.1503 2008-02-26T06:00:00Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com nnnnnnnNothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
- George Santayana
  American (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863-1952)]]> February 23, 2008 2008-09-26T19:29:16Z 2008-02-23T06:00:01Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2008://1.1501 2008-02-23T06:00:01Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com It is necessary to call things by their right names
- Confucius
  Chinese philosopher (551-479 BC)]]> February 22, 2008 2008-10-02T16:50:06Z 2008-02-22T19:18:01Z tag:www.reflectionfortheday.com,2008://1.1500 2008-02-22T19:18:01Z tbf tbf@reflectionfortheday.com The loss of a thing affects us until we have lost it altogether
-Antonio Porchia
  Italian poet (1885-1968)
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