Thought for the day or Something to think about.

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“Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul... but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.” ~ Peggy Toney Horton

“If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone’s expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.” ~ Hope Solo

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." ~ Henry Ford

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"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." ~ Albert Einstein

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence." ~ Mark Twain

"Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress." ~ Charles Kettering

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"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn." ~ B. C. Forbes


"Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye." ~ Austin O'Malley


“You can't expect to reap a harvest that you're not willing to plant.” ~ Yvonne Pierre

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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ~ Carl Jung

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"When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice." ~ Otto von Bismarck

"All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough." ~ Anna Quindlen


"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise." ~ Paul Engle

"Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child." ~ Henry Ward Beecher

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

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"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." ~ Malcolm Forbes

"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants." ~ Stephen King

"Golf is like a love affair: If you don't take it seriously, it's not fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart." ~ Arnold Daly

[SmokeyBob]

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"There are no rules here—we're trying to accomplish something." ~ Thomas A. Edison

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

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"Golf is like a love affair: If you don't take it seriously, it's not fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart." ~ Arnold Daly



"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time." ~ Willem de Kooning

"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success." ~ Vauvenargues

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"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down." ~ Kurt Vonnegut

"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it." ~ George Eliot

"It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like." ~ Jackie Mason

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"The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself." ~ Oscar Wilde

"Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal and obeys it." ~ Louis Pasteur

"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." ~ Alfred Adler

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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Doubt is the father of invention." ~ Galileo Galilei

"I like to pick up hitchhikers. When they get in the car I say, 'Put on your seat belt. I want to try something. I saw it once in a cartoon, but I think I can do it." ~ Steven Wright

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"There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over." ~ Carl W. Buechner

"Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with." ~ Simon Travaglia

"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway." ~ Bernard Avishai

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"Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to." ~ Ezra Taft Benson

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." ~ Mark Twain


"It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days." ~ Isabel Waxman

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"There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on
the feelings, as now in October." ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." ~ Goethe

"It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot