Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on." ~ Sheryl Sandberg

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." ~ Bill Cosby

"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me." ~ Ayn Rand

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"You can't get too much winter in the winter." ~ Robert Frost

"Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen." ~ Willa Cather

"He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter." ~ John Burroughs

[SmokeyBob]

"Nature looks dead in winter because her life is gathered into her heart." ~ Hugh Macmillian

"I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show." ~Andrew Wyeth


"To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring." ~W.J. Vogel

[SmokeyBob]

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated." ~ Maya Angelou


“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”~ Confucius


“It always seems impossible until it's done.” ~ Nelson Mandela

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“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” ~ Abraham Lincoln


“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them." ~ Rabindranath Tagore


"That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.” ~ Bill Watterson

[SmokeyBob]

"I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game." ~ Ron White


"That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl." ~ John Madden

"Losing the Super Bowl is worse than dying. You have to get up the next morning." ~ George Allen

[SmokeyBob]

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.” ― Gerald G. Jampolsky

[SmokeyBob]

"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society." ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable." ~ Samuel Johnson

"Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender." ~ Mary Lorraine Buckley

[SmokeyBob]

"Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it." ~ Lady Duff-Gordon

"Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires." ~ Randolph S. Bourne


"Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water." ~ African Proverb

[SmokeyBob]

"Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement." ~ Grover Cleveland

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in." ~ Morrie Schwartz

"I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead." ~ Samuel Goldwyn

[SmokeyBob]

"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper." ~Jerry Seinfeld

"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing." ~ Robert Benchley

"An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart." ~ David Augsburger

[SmokeyBob]

Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human. ~ Cesar Millan

[SmokeyBob]

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. at night, the ice weasels come." ~ Matt Groening

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." ~ Henry Van Dyke

"For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow." ~ Rosemonde Gerard

[SmokeyBob]

"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction." ~ Antoine de Saint

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." ~ Lao Tzu

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you." ~ Erich Fromm

[SmokeyBob]

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." ~ C. S. Lewis

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
~ James A. Baldwin

"A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him." ~ Brendan Francis