Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear." ~ Alfred Eisenstaedt

"One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes." ~ Andrew Wyeth

"I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name." ~ Paula Poundstone

[SmokeyBob]

"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals." ~ Samuel Ullman

"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't." ~ Pete Seeger

"The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity." ~ Clifford Stoll

[SmokeyBob]

"I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." ~ W.B. Yeats

"Cheese… milk's leap toward immortality." ~ Clifton Fadiman

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." ~ Albert Einstein

[SmokeyBob]

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” ~ Farrah Gray

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” ~ Les Brown

"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do." ~ Mother Teresa

[SmokeyBob]

“Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.” ~ Vince Lombardi

"Never stand between a dog and the hydrant." ~ John Peers

[SmokeyBob]

"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter." ~ Francoise Sagan

"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." ~ David Friedman

“The best revenge is massive success.” ~ Frank Sinatra

[SmokeyBob]

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Leaders live by choice, not by accident.” ~ Mark Gorman

"But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next." ~ Desmond Tutu

[SmokeyBob]

I hear: I forget / I see: I remember / I do: I understand ~ Chinese Proverb

It's important not to confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. ~ Alfred A. Montapert

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~ Carl Jung

[SmokeyBob]

"My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July."

~ Rick Bass

"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on." ~ Bob Newhart

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[SmokeyBob]

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson



"August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina." ~ Henry Rollins

"A good laugh heals a lot of hurts." ~ Madeleine L’Engle

[SmokeyBob]

"A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable." ~ Herbert Procknow

"Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress." ~ Maimonides

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." ~ Dalai Lama

[SmokeyBob]

"Dream big and dare to fail." ~ Norman Vaughan

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight." ~ Phyllis Diller

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month." ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Today's Cartoon

[SmokeyBob]

"That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice." ~ Garth Brooks


"August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation." ~ Willard Scott

"Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying." ~ Bear Grylls

[SmokeyBob]

We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are. ~ Anais Nin

[SmokeyBob]

"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have." ~ Anne Tyler

"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate." ~ Doug Larson

"I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans, we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that." ~ Linda Ellerbee