DAY 281
"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave."
- Ernest Hemingway
DAY 282
"My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency...become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'"
- Rudolph Giuliani
DAY 283
"We'll never make it to our milestones if we can't make it through our moments."
-Beth Moore
DAY 284
"It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing of the little things, the common duties, a little better and better."
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
DAY 285
"Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability."
- Joe Brown
DAY 286
"The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else."
- Geoffrey Gaberino
DAY 287
"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
- Marian Wright Edelman