260/365 - We learn from Failure (Bram Stoker)

“We learn from failure,

 not from success!”

  - Bram Stoker

Dracula

259/365 - The only man (Theodore Roosevelt)

“The only man

 who never makes mistakes

 is the man

 who never does anything.”
 

- Theodore Roosevelt

258/365 - Successful people (Brian Tracy)

“Successful people 

are always looking for opportunities 

to help others.

Unsuccessful people

 are always asking, 

"What's in it for me?”

  - Brian Tracy

257/365 - The more certain I am (Voltaire)

“The more I read, 

the more I acquire, 

the more certain I am 

that I know nothing.”

  - Voltaire

256/365 - Free time isn't free (Jarod Kintz)

“If you only had 48 hours

 left to live, 

would you spend it 

like you normally

 spend your weekends?

 If not,

 why spend 2/7th of your life 

wasting your free time? 

After all,

 free time isn’t free.

 Free time

 is the most expensive time

 you have, 

because nobody

pays for it but you. 

 But that also makes it

 the most valuable time you have,

 as you alone

 stand to reap the profits

 from spending it wisely.”

  - Jarod Kintz

I Should Have Renamed This

255/365 - Insatiable curiosity (Oscar Wilde)

“The public 

have an insatiable curiosity

 to know everything,

 except what is worth knowing.”

- Oscar Wilde

The Soul of Man Under Socialism 

and Selected Critical Prose

254/365 - Makes no difference (Jarod Kintz)

“Whether you live to be 50 

or 100

 makes no difference,

 if you made no difference in the world.”

- Jarod Kintz

   Great Listener Series Mute Women

253/365 - The measure of intelligence (Albert Einstein)

“The measure of intelligence

 is the ability to change.”

- Albert Einstein

252/365 - The greatest hazard in life (Leo Buscaglia)

“Risks must be taken 

because the greatest hazard in life

 is to risk nothing.”

  - Leo Buscaglia

251/365 - What's a Sundial in the Shade? (Benjamin Franklin)

“Hide not your talents,

 they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?”
 

- Benjamin Franklin

250/365 - And knowing why (William Edgar Stafford)

“Wisdom is having things right in your life
and knowing why.”

- William Edgar Stafford

249/365 - Therein lies my honor (Kahlil Gibran)

“I am ignorant 

of absolute truth. 

But I am humble 

before my ignorance

 and therein lies my honor

 and my reward.”

  - Kahlil Gibran

248/365 - How Necessary (John Keats)

“Do you not see how necessary 

a world of pains and troubles 

is to school an intelligence

 and make it a soul?”

- John Keats

Letters of John Keats

247/365 - Your sense of Morals (Isaac Asimov)

“Never let your sense of morals 

get in the way 

of doing what's right.”

  - Isaac Asimov

246/365 - One never regrets (Oscar Wilde)

“Nowadays most people die 

of a sort of creeping common sense, 

and discover when it is too late 

that the only things 

one never regrets

 are one's mistakes.”

  - Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

245/365 - The Wisest might err (Mahatma Gandhi)

“It is unwise 

to be too sure of one's own wisdom. 

It is healthy

 to be reminded that the strongest

 might weaken 

and the wisest

 might err.”

  Mahatma Gandhi

244/365 - The Beginning of Wisdom (Socrates)

“Wonder 

is the beginning of wisdom.”
 

- Socrates

243/365 - To arrive where we started (T.S. Eliot)

“We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”

- T.S. Eliot

Four Quartets

242/365 - Never complain, Never Explain (Brian Tracy)

“Never complain,

 never explain.

 Resist the temptation

 to defend yourself

 or make excuses.”

  - Brian Tracy

241/365 - To see him tried on him (Abraham Lincoln)

“Whenever I hear anyone 

arguing for slavery, 

I feel a strong impulse

 to see it tried on him personally.”

- Abraham Lincoln

240/365 - All Knowledge (Cassandra Clare)

“All knowledge hurts.”

- Cassandra Clare

City of Bones

239/365 - I shall be able to see (Helen Keller)

“Death is no more than passing 

from one room into another.

 

 But there's a difference for me, 

you know. 

 

Because in that other room

 I shall be able to see.”

  - Helen Keller

238/365 - Except the one within (Louisa May Alcott)

“I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within.”

  - Louisa May Alcott

237/365 - Our only necessities (Oscar Wilde)

“We live in an age 

when unnecessary things 

are our only necessities.”

- Oscar Wilde

236/365 - The book of Widom (Thomas Jefferson)

“Honesty is the first chapter

 of the book wisdom.”

- Thomas Jefferson

235/365 - Make more Opportunities (Francis Bacon)

“A wise man

 will make more opportunities 

than he finds.”

- Francis Bacon

The Essays

234/365 - Slipping slowly away beneath you (A.A. Milne)

 

“Sometimes,

 if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge 

and lean over to watch the river

 slipping slowly away beneath you,

 you will suddenly know

 everything there is to be known.”

  - A.A. Milne

233/365 - Because you have the Freedom (Jarod Kintz)

“Nothing, Everything, 

Anything, Something: 

If you have nothing,

 then you have everything, 

because you have the freedom

 to do anything, 

without the fear 

of losing something.”

  - Jarod Kintz

232/365 - He who knows all the answers (Confucius)

“He who knows all the answers 

has not been asked all the questions.”

- Confucius

231/365 - Only when we have ovecome them (Paulo Coelho)

“There are moments 

when troubles enter our lives 

and we can do nothing to avoid them.

But they are there for a reason. 

Only when we have overcome them 

will we understand why they were there.”

  - Paulo Coelho

The Fifth Mountain

230/365 - The point is to Understand (Albert Einstein)

“Any fool can know. 

The point is to understand.”

  - Albert Einstein