Thought for the day or Something to think about.

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Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.

Lao-tzu

[SmokeyBob]

Many people take no care of their money until they come nearly to the end of it and others do just the same with their time.
~Goethe

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
~Unknown

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
~George Eliot

[SmokeyBob]

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away.
~ Elvis Presley

Remember, obstacles are simply opportunities for advancement.
~ Unknown

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
~ Amelia Earhart

[SmokeyBob]

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
~Lewis Thomas

Q: How many computer programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None, that's a hardware problem.

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
~ Steven Wright

[SmokeyBob]

"The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
~Albert Einstein.

"If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes."
~Bob Edwards

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
~Howard Aiken

[SmokeyBob]

"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."
~Abraham Lincoln

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
~unknown

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
~Robert Frost

[SmokeyBob]

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
~Harriet Woods

If you want a happy, good life, keep control of your tongue and guard your lips from telling lies.
~1 Peter 3:10

Many of our fears are tissue paper thin and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
~Brendan Francis Behan

[SmokeyBob]

Have no friends not equal to yourself.
~ Confucius

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
~ Jacques Delille

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[SmokeyBob]

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."
~Bill Vaughan

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
~Lily Tomlin

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
~Mohandas Gandhi

[SmokeyBob]

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.
~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

We can find comfort among those who agree with us, growth among those who don't.
~ Unknown

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
~ Samuel Johnson

[SmokeyBob]

Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
~Unknown

When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief, but intrinsic participation with it.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
~Unknown

[SmokeyBob]

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
~ Epicurus

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on Earth will be filled with glory.
~ Betty Smith

Practice is the best of all instructors.
~ Publilius Syrus

[SmokeyBob]

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his brain is a craftsman, but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
~ Louis Nizer

Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever.
~ Unknown

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
~ Mother Teresa

[SmokeyBob]

"A cat that catches mice does not meow."
~Chinese Proverb

"When I play with my cat, who knows but that she regards me more as a plaything that I do her?"
~Michel de Montaigne

"Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there."
~Andrew Mercer

[SmokeyBob]

"I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?"
~Carol Burnett

"The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue."
~Dorothy Parker

"Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?"
~Frank Moore Colby