Thought for the day or Something to think about.

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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face ~ Maya Angelou, 1928 - 2014, U.S. Poet Laureate

Worry is a misuse of the imagination.― Dan Zadra

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."~ Mark Twain

"The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you." ~ Issac Asimov

"Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"The brain gives the heart its sight. The heart gives the brain its vision." ~ Kall

"Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter." ~ Pablo Picasso

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"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four; unless there are three other people." ~ Orson Welles

"It's time to start living the life you've imagined." ~ Henry James

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." ~ John F. Kennedy

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"I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There's no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward." ~ John Mortimer

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

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." ~ Helen Keller

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"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me." ~ Jim Valvano

“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories." ~ John Wilmot

"My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad." ~ Beau Bridges

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“Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.” ~ Dan Pearce

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." ~ George Herbert

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong." ~ Charles Wadsworth

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"My father was often angry when I was most like him." ~ Lillian Hellman


It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. ~ Anne Sexton


“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” ~ Umberto Eco

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"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards." ~ Robert Orben

"Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both." ~ Michael Josephson

"I have found the very best way to advise your children is to find out what they want to do and advise them to do it." ~ President Harry Truman

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“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ~ Henry James

“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.” ~ Aristotle

“Come with me,' Mom says.
To the library.
Books and summertime
go together.”
~ Lisa Schroeder

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"Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams." ~ Hosea Ballou

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it." ~ Russell Baker


"Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January." ~Hal Borland

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"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." ~ Mark Twain

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go" ~ Oscar Wilde

"No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." ~ Winston Churchill

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"You must look into other people as well as at them." ~ Lord Chesterfield

"There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking." ~ Frederick William Faber

"We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us." ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

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"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt." ~ William Shakespeare

"Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping." ~ Thomas Hood

"Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success." ~ Napoleon Hill

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"A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost—he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over." ~ Josh Billings

"The future you shall know when it has come; before then forget it." ~ Aeschylus

"There are no facts, only interpretations." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche