Thought of the Week will be up every Monday.
Just provide you something to ponder over the rest of the week.
22nd February 2010 (Founder's Day)
"Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people."
- Lord Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Founder of the Scout Movement
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3rd January 2011
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22nd February 2011 (Founder's Day)
28th February 2011
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1st March 2010
"A leader must not forget how to follow for that's where we all started."
- Unknown 8th March 2010
"Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world.
Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before.
Let your soul take you where you long to be.
Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar,
And you'll live as you've never lived before."
- Erich Seligmann FrommLeave all thoughts of the world you knew before.
Let your soul take you where you long to be.
Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar,
And you'll live as you've never lived before."
15th March 2010
"That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest."
- Henry David Thoreau22th March 2010
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. "
- Native American Proverb29th March 2010
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln5th April 2010
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit."
- Napoleon Hill12th April 2010
"In dreams begins responsibility."
- William Butler Yeats19th April 2010
"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."
- John F. Kennedy26th April 2010
"Age considers; Youth ventures."
- Rabindranath Tagore3rd May 2010
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant10th May 2010
"Live and breathe your passion, for it feeds your mind and soul."
- Modified from Clarice Song's words17th May 2010
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
- Sir William Wallace24th May 2010
"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
- Carl Jung 31st May 2010
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."
- Oprah Winfrey 7th June 2010
"Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature."
- Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 196414th June 2010
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't."
- Richard Bach If you're alive, it isn't."
21st June 2010
"Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us."
- Henrik Tikkanen12th July 2010
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
- John Muir19th July 2010
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
- John Barrymore26th July 2010
"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery2nd August 2010
"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."
- Arnold H. Glasow9th August 2010
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
- William Arthur Ward16th August 2010
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 23rd August 2010
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
- Oprah Winfrey30th August 2010
"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
- Henry Ellis 6th September 2010
"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."
- Shirley MacLaine13th September 2010
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
- Elbert Hubbard 20th September 2010
"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."
- Thomas A. Edison 27th September 2010
"Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde 4th October 2010
"When the journey becomes unbearable, stop and remove that grain of sand in the shoe."
- Unknown11th October 2010
"A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities."
- William Arthur Ward3rd January 2011
"A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."
- William Penn10th January 2011
"You are living your dreams. I'm still living in my dreams."
- Chin Jian Hau, an old friend of mine who said to me during a dinner when I was sharing my stories with our friends17th January 2011
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."
- Albert Camus24th January 2011
"A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful."
- William Arthur Ward31st January 2011
"Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room -- others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?"
- William Arthur Ward7th February 2011
"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."
- Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama14th February 2011
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."
- Henry Van Dyke"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love."
- Leo Buscaglia21st February 2011
"There is a Dime in a Dozen. Then there is One in a Million. You are Once in a Lifetime."
- Victor Rodriguez22nd February 2011 (Founder's Day)
"The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light."
- Lord Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Founder of the Scout Movement28th February 2011
"A person shows what he is by what he does with what he has."
- Anonymous28th March 2011
"Turn left when nothing is right or turn right when nothing is left?"
- Unknown9th May 2011
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt16th May 2011
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."
- Bernice Johnson Reagon21st Nov 2011
"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life."
- James Allen28th Nov 2011
"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights."
- Giotto di Bondone5th Dec 2011
"Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging."
- Joseph Campbell12th Dec 2011
"Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action. When you can taste, smell, and touch your dream, you can enroll the world."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 19th Dec 2011
"A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy."
- Thomas Carlyle