Thoughtful Thursday

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not."
- Andre Gide

"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."
- Aristotle

"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep."
- W. H. Auden

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
- e.e cummings

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
- Mark Twain

"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things."
- Norman Douglas