Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
~Catherine Aird

"Friends and wine should be old."
~Spanish proverb

"Do not wish to be anything but what you are."
~Saint Francis de Sales

[SmokeyBob]

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
~G.K. Chesterton

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
~Voltaire

Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
~Mark Twain

[SmokeyBob]

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others."
~Rober Schuller, Minister

"We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them."
~M. Scott Peck

[SmokeyBob]

A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well or ill?
~ John Steinbeck

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
~ Chinese proverb

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. And try to love the questions themselves.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

[SmokeyBob]

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
~Warren Beatty

If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.

~Robert Quillen

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
~Kahlil Gibran

The best and most beautiful things must be felt with the heart.
~Helen Keller

[SmokeyBob]

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
~Phillips Brooks

Difficulties are things that show what men are.
~Epictetus

If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito.
~Michelle Walker

[SmokeyBob]

And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free, and I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me and I'll proudly stand up next to him to defend her still today, cause there ain't no doubt I love this land, God bless the USA.
~ Lee Greenwood

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
~ John F. Kennedy

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the
limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
~ Woodrow Wilson

[SmokeyBob]

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
~Voltaire

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~Mahatma Gandhi

To get your ideas across, use small words, big ideas and short sentences.
~John Henry Patterson

[SmokeyBob]

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse.
~ Ed Koch

Graduation is only a concept. In real life, every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference.
~ Arie Pencovici

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.
~ George Foreman

[SmokeyBob]

Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
~Harvey Fierstein

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lay an invincible summer.
~Albert Camus

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
~Lord Byron

[SmokeyBob]

Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional and mental states.
~Carol Welch

Learn to write your hurts in the sand. Learn to carve your blessings in stone.
~Unknown

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility and pushing their luck.
~Anon

[SmokeyBob]

"I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock."
~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."
~A. Whitney Brown

"It's not such a bad thing, having voices in my head constantly. The only problem is that the vegan always sabotages our dinner plans."
~Tristan Fabriani

[SmokeyBob]

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
~ Ruth Graham

Treat others how you want to be treated.
~ Unknown

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
~ Thomas Carlyle

[SmokeyBob]

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
~ Unknown

Wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, you will have a bright future and your hopes will not be cut short.
~ Proverbs 24:14

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
~ Unknown

[SmokeyBob]

Scrawled across the dorm wall were the words, "Question Everything!" A couple of days later someone added one word... "Why?"
~Unknown

"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers."
~Woody Allen

"Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."
~Peter Cochrane