Thought for the day or Something to think about.

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"You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do." ~ Henry Ford

“Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.” ~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“Being content creates simplicity in life.” ~ John Heider

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“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” ~ Wayne Gretzky

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” ~ Lao Tsu

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” ~ Oscar Wilde

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“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.” ~ Orville Wright

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” ~ Robert Frost

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"Do or do not. There is no try." ~ Yoda

“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.” ~ Janis Joplin

“I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward.” ~ Firdtjof Nansen

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“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” ~ Joseph Campbell

""The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." ~ Alan Ashley-Pitt

"Information is not knowledge." ~ Frank Zappa

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“If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up. “~ Hunter S. Thompson

“One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything—and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.” ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” ~ Tom Robbins

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“Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.” ~ Karen Armstrong

“I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.” ~ John Buchan

“Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.” ~ Alice Walker

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“Relationships give us a reason to live. Revenge.” ~ Ronny Shakes

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.” ~ Honoré de Balzac

“I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.” ~ Johnny Carson

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“We cannot cure the world of its sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.” ~ Joseph Campbell

“The difference between being in a relationship and being in prison is that in prisons they let you play softball on the weekends.” ~ Bobby Kelton

“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I bet they’d live a lot different.” ~Bill Watterson

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“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” ~ John Powell

“You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.” ~ Patch Adams

“There’s only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it’s actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.” ~ Anne Frank

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"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

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"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." ~ Allan K. Chalmers

"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy." ~ Cynthia Nelms

"The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." ~ Charles Du Bos

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"Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor." ~ Helen Rowland

"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them." ~ Joseph Heller

"It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow." ~ Josh Billings

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"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." ~ Carl Gustav Jung

"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order." ~ John Quincy Adams

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Every fool finds a greater one to admire them." ~ Bioleau

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." ~ Thomas Jefferson

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? ~ Eugene Kennedy