Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers." ~ Janis Joplin


"If you let the fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”

~ Katharine Butler Hathaway


"When I was 5, my mother always told me that happiness is the key to life. When I went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment. I told them they didn’t understand life.”

~ John Lennon

[SmokeyBob]

"Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there." ~ David Zucker


"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out." ~ R. Collier


"Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which to decision to take is the worst of suffering.” ~ Paolo Coelho

[SmokeyBob]

"There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child." ~ Frank A. Clark


"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.” ~ e. e. Cummings


"If the lessons of history teach us anything, it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us." ~ Anon

[SmokeyBob]

"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you." ~ Erma Bombeck


"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy." ~ Anton Chekov


"Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well." ~ George R.R. Martin

[SmokeyBob]

"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example." ~ Benjamin Disraeli


"Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays. The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms." ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich


"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." ~ Joseph Campbell

[SmokeyBob]

"The funnies line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles." ~ Garrison Keillor


"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” ~ Brian Gerald O’Driscoll


“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” ~ Marilyn Monroe

[alaska teardrop]

"Live simply that others may simply live."

St. Elizabeth Seton - American

[SmokeyBob]

"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.” ~ Will Rogers


"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?" ~ -Dick Clark


"Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood." ~ Mary Hirsch

[SmokeyBob]

"Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it." ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery


"Laughter is America's most important export." ~ Walt Disney


"You have a much laughter as you have faith." ~ Martin Luther

[SmokeyBob]

"A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths." ~ Peter Drucker


"90% of every art form is garbage – dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that’s good, suck it up, and drive on." ~Patton Oswalt


"Discovering what you really want saves you endless confusion and wasted energy." ~ Stuart Wilde

[SmokeyBob]

"Focus on remedies, not faults. " ~ Jack Nicklaus


“Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit.“ ~ R.E. Shay


“I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?“ ~ Jean Cocteau

[SmokeyBob]

“Discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes” ~ Marcel Proust


“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.” ~ Oscar Wilde


“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[SmokeyBob]

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ~ Alexander Graham Bell

[SmokeyBob]

"Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.”

~ Dale Carnegie

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

~ Winston Churchill

"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher." ~ Dalai Lama

[SmokeyBob]

"Sometimes in life it is most wise to behave like a bridge: Don’t judge the person who comes to you; let him come and pass! Behave like a bridge!”

~ Mehmet Murat ildan


"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one." ~ Mark Twain


"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors" ~ Plato