Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)

Quiet people have the loudest minds. (Stephen Hawking)

We don’t know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops. (John Cleese)

[SmokeyBob]

"You create your opportunities by asking for them." ~ Shakti Gawain

"When summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And, like a dream, glides away." ~ Sarah Helen Whitman

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.” ~ Ray Bradbury

[SmokeyBob]

"I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.” ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

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

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability." ~ Sam Keen

[SmokeyBob]

"I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.” ~ Ned Vizzini

"Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it." ~ Andrew Solomon

"The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.” ~ C. JoyBell

[SmokeyBob]

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” ~ John keats

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.” ~ D.H. Lawrence

"You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.” ~ Neil Gaiman.

[SmokeyBob]

"By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer." ~Helen Hunt Jackson

“My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”
~ George R.R. Martin

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning." ~ Louise Erdrich

[SmokeyBob]

May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." ~ B. F. Skinner

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. ~ Marian Anderson

The bad news is time flies. The good news is we're the pilot. ~ Michael Althsuler

[SmokeyBob]

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

"Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage." ~ Samuel Johnson

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

[SmokeyBob]

"Life is either a grand adventure or nothing." ~ Helen Keller

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." ~ Albert Einstein

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work." ~ Rita Mae Brown

[SmokeyBob]

"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order." ~ Jean-Luc Godard

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

"The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety." ~ George Mueller

[SmokeyBob]

Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth. (Stephen Hawking)

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? (Robert Schuller)

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. (Admiral Hyman G. Rickover)

[SmokeyBob]

"Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing and does it well." ~ E. Merrill Root

"Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart." ~ Ken Keyes

"There's no night without stars." ~ Andre Norton

[SmokeyBob]

There is no such thing as a perfect decision. It’s often best to choose the option that most reflects our needs in the present. Decisiveness can help us move forward even when the best course of action is unclear. Advancement can be its own reward because in moving forward we see our journey from a new vantage point. ~ The Daily Om

[SmokeyBob]

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." ~ Pablo Picasso

"I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious." ~ Andrew Wyeth

"It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait." ~ James McNeill Whistler

[SmokeyBob]

"The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt." ~ Bono

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it." ~ John Lennon

"O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives." ~ Jim Morrison