Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it." ~ J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." ~ Walter Bagehot

"One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings."~ D.E. Stevenson

[SmokeyBob]

"To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep." ~ Joan Klempner

"So this is my life. And I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be." ~ Stephen Chbosky

"You are the hero of your own story." ~ Joseph Campbell

[SmokeyBob]

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it." ~ Clarence S. Darrow

"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions." ~ William F. Scolavino

"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one." ~ Mary Kay Ash

[SmokeyBob]

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be." ~ William Hazlitt

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." ~ Albert Einstein

"Nobody believes the official spokesman, but everybody trusts an unidentified source." ~ Ron Nesen

[SmokeyBob]

"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese." ~ Billie Burke

"In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage."
~ Robert Anderson

"Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit." ~ Bernard Williams

[SmokeyBob]

"Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else." ~ James Thorpe

"Time hasn't stopped for any troubles, heartaches, or any other malfunctions of this world, so please don't tell me it will stop for you."
~ C.S. Lewis

[SmokeyBob]

"The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore, they attempt the impossible; and achieve it, generation after generation."
~ Pearl S. Buck

"Faith is to believe what you do not see. The reward of this faith is to see what you believe." ~ St. Augustine

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." ~ Ronald Reagan

[SmokeyBob]

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice." ~Meister Eckhart

"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving." ~ W. T. Purkiser

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

[SmokeyBob]

"If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share." ~ W. Clement Stone

"Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often." ~ Johnny Carson

"An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day." ~ Irv Kupcinet

[SmokeyBob]

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." ~ G.K. Chesterton

"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate." ~ Elbert Hubbard


"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.” ~ Oscar Wilde,

[SmokeyBob]

"Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow." ~Edward Sandford Martin

"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence." ~ Erma Bombeck

"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart" ~ Seneca

[SmokeyBob]

"If men liked shopping, they'd call it research." ~ Cynthia Nelms

"A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist." ~ Franklin P. Jones

"Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice." ~ Dave Barry

[SmokeyBob]

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” ― Mark Twain

[SmokeyBob]

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet." ~ Stanislaw J. Lec

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." ~ Donald Kendall

"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn." ~ Henry David Thoreau

[SmokeyBob]

"That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all and yet, you always feel as if it costs you nothing." ~ Simone de Beauvoir

"Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?" ~ Kelvin Throop III

"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger." ~ Franklin P. Jones