Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"Lost time is never found again." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done." ~ Marie Currie

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

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"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be guarded by a bodyguard of lies." ~ Winston Churchill

"The present is a point just passed." ~ David Russell

"Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect." ~ Benny Hill

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"Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on Earth will be filled with glory."
~ Betty Smith

"Time is the wisest counselor of all." ~ Pericles

"You say, "If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied." You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled." ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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"If passion drives, let reason hold the reins." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues." ~ Bertrand Russell

"There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else."
~ Cyrus H. Curtis

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

"No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work." ~ Mother Teresa

"At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable." ~ Christopher Reeve

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"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

"A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last." ~ Helen Rowland

"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination." ~ Barbara G. Harrison

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"The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good." ~ Brian Tracy

"It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks." ~ Auguste Renoir

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
~ Helen Keller

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[SmokeyBob]

"Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people." ~ F. M. Hubbard

"I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does." ~ Virgilia Peterson

"How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality." ~ Christina Baldwin

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"I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds." ~ Mark Twain

"I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force. My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day." ~ Og Mandino

"I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night."~ Marie Corelli

[SmokeyBob]

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present. ~ Lao Tzu

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"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

"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always." ~ Albert Schweitzer

"Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places." ~ Latin Proverb

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"Asthma doesn’t seem to bother me any more unless I’m around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar." ~ Steve Allen

"Love, you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength." ~ Theodor Adorno

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

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"Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow." ~ Arthur Stringer

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

"It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics." ~ Fletcher Knebel

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"A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her."
~Helen Rowland

"Every time I learn something new it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Like that time I took that home wine making course and forgot how to drive." ~ Homer Simpson

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

[SmokeyBob]

"What potent blood hath modest May." ~ Ralph W. Emerson

"Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being." ~ Kevin Kruse

"The world's favorite season is the spring.
All things seem possible in May."
~ Edwin Way Teale