Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

“Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out.” ~ Randall Munroe

“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” ~ Jack London

“I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live.” ~ Oscar Wilde

[SmokeyBob]

"Whatever you are, be a good one." ~ Abraham Lincoln

"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted" ~ .Albert Einstein

[SmokeyBob]

"The trouble is you think you have time." ~ Buddha

"What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. " ~ Colette

"One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life." ~ John Green

[SmokeyBob]

"It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly." ~ Isaac Asimov

"Life is trying things to see if they work." ~ Ray Bradbury

"The best way out is always through." ~ Robert Frost

[SmokeyBob]

"You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." ~ Meredith Wilson

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." ~ Bertrand Russel

"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind." ~ William Butler Yeats

[SmokeyBob]

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

"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. ~Samuel Butler

"A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life." ~ William Arthur Ward

[SmokeyBob]

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter." ~ Winston Churchill

"You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent." ~ President Richard Nixon

"If you can't convince them, confuse them." ~ President Harry S. Truman

[SmokeyBob]

"Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble." ~ John Barrymore

"Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary." ~ Oscar Wilde

"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." ~ St. Augustine

[SmokeyBob]

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with." ~ Mark Twain

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." ~ H. L. Mencken

"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them." ~ Charles Caleb Colton

[SmokeyBob]

"We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That’s what connects us–that we’re all broken, all beautifully imperfect." ~ Emilio Estevez

"Taking time to do nothing often brings everything into perspective." ~ Doe Zantamata

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." ~ Rogers Hornsby

[SmokeyBob]

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, except for bears. Bears will kill you.” ~ Anonymous

"People say, That which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn’t kill you, doesn’t kill you. That’s all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that’s enough.” ~ Tayari Jones

[SmokeyBob]

"It is not length of life, but depth of life." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, magical, person that you are." ~ Mandy Hale

"No legacy is so rich as honesty." ~ William Shakespeare

[SmokeyBob]

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad." ~ Salvador Dali


"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us." ~ Jean Paul Richter

[SmokeyBob]

"Moral courage and character go hand in hand. A man of real character is consistently courageous, being imbued with a basic integrity and a firm sense of principle." ~ Martha Boaz

"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute." ~ Josh Billings

"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it." ~ Abraham Lincoln

[SmokeyBob]

"Love is the best medicine and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart." ~ Julie Marie

"Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong." ~ Sir Winston Churchill

"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

~Samuel Butler