Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.
~Stanley Horowitz

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life; we are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves.
~Chief Sealth

An analogy isn't the same thing as being the same thing.
~The Economist

[SmokeyBob]

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long term values.
~Joshua L. Liebman

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
~Unknown

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one, it makes you that much stronger.
If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
~Dale Carnegie

[SmokeyBob]

Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.
~Chuck Palahniuk

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
~Dr. Robert Anthony

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything. "I will try" has accomplished wonders.
~George P. Burnham

[SmokeyBob]

Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
~George Bernard Shaw

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
~Glenn Clark

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
~J.B. Priestly

[SmokeyBob]

"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
~Herbert Hoover

"Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror."
~Al Boliska

"An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's."
~Will Rogers

[SmokeyBob]

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs, since the payment is pure love.
~Mildred B. Vermont

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
~Rajneesh

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
~Sophia Loren

[SmokeyBob]

Without friends, no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
~Aristotle

Yesterday is history, tomorrow's a mystery. Today is a gift; that's why they call it the present.
~Unknown

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

[SmokeyBob]

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
~Tyron Edwards

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.
~Claud Cockburn

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.
~Tyron Edwards

[SmokeyBob]

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing, and does it well.
~E. Merrill Root

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
~Oliver Goldsmith

The world is good-natured to people who are good-natured.
~William Makepeace Thackeray

[SmokeyBob]

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

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
~T. S. Eliot

"Electricity is really just organized lightning."
~George Carlin

[SmokeyBob]

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~Mark Twain

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

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

[SmokeyBob]

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself. And so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
~Shirley MacLaine

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those who got there first.
~Unknown

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.
~Christina Baldwin

[SmokeyBob]

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
~Jack Dempsey

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
~Malcolm Forbes

[SmokeyBob]

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
~Epictetus

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
~Thomas Alva Edison

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
~Tyron Edwards

[SmokeyBob]

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.
~Lyndon B. Johnson

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
~Moliere

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
~Oscar Wilde