Thought for the day or Something to think about.

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Postby SmokeyBob » Mon Jun 15, 2015 10:12 am

"People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage."
~ Mignon McLaughlin

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now, put the foundations under them."
~ Henry David Thoreau

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet." ~ Stanislaw J. Lec
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Wed Jun 17, 2015 10:14 am

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, "I'll try again tomorrow."
~ Mary Anne Radmacher

"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts."
~ Charles Dickens

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter." ~ Winston Churchill
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:00 am

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
~ Winston Churchill

"Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter." ~ Pablo Picasso

"Be nice to people on your way up. You might need them on the way down."
~ Jimmy Durante
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Fri Jun 19, 2015 9:34 am

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
~Berthold Auerbach

"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person." ~ Margaret Anderson

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." ~ Kurt Vonnegut
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Sun Jun 21, 2015 12:14 am

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ~ Anaïs Nin
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Mon Jun 22, 2015 8:36 am

"Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There's no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward." ~ John Mortimer

“The best wood in most amateurs’ golf bags is the pencil.”
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:44 am

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
--Albert Einstein

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you." ~ Issac Asimov
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Thu Jun 25, 2015 9:13 am

It's time to start living the life you've imagined."
~ Henry James

“He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.”
~Mickey Mantle

"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers." ~ Woody Allen
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Fri Jun 26, 2015 5:29 pm

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
~ Charles Dickens

"Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world."
~ Lauren Bacall

"There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm."
~ Willa Cather
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Tue Jun 30, 2015 11:36 am

"You learn something every day if you pay attention." ~ Ray LeBlond

"Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale. ' ~ Zig Ziglar

"We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there." ~ Charles F. Kettering
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Tue Jun 30, 2015 11:55 am

"Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got." ~ Sophia Loren

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty." ~ Henry Ford

"Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will." ~ Nelson Mandela
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Sat Jul 04, 2015 11:57 pm

One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.
John Green
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Tue Jul 07, 2015 6:27 pm

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.

If you fall, I’ll always be there.
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Fri Jul 10, 2015 5:07 pm

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Mon Jul 13, 2015 10:56 pm

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
Lao Tzu
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