For a printable version, Daily Reflections - November
November 1
"Being happy is not the only happiness." - Alice Walker
November 2
"So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love." - Corinthians 13:13
November 3
"Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings." - Ralph Blum
November 4
"Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?" - Matthew 6:27
November 5
"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself." - Swami Vivekananda
November 6
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for." - Georgia O'Keeffe
November 7
"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing." - Socrates
November 8
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale
November 9
"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." - Psalms 30:5
November 10
"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." - Saint Augustine
November 11
"We walk by faith, not by sight." - 2 Corinthians 5:7
November 12
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Harold R. McAlindon
November 13
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
November 14
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
November 15
"To win without risk is to triumph without glory." - Corneille
November 16
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear." - 1 John 4:18
November 17
"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day." - Abraham Lincoln
November 18
"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God." - Isaiah 41:10
November 19
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare
November 20
"Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness." - Anthony J. D'Angelo
November 21
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it." - David Star Jordan
November 22
"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters." - Alan Simpson
November 23
"But since you excel in everything?see that you also excel in this grace of giving." - 2 Corinthians 8:7
November 24
"Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one." - Chinese Proverb
November 25
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice." - Meister Eckhart
November 26
"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"? - William A. Ward
November 27
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues." - Cicero
November 28
"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence." - Author Unknown
November 29
"If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done." - John Lubbock
November 30
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
- Martin Luther King
November 31
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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