Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like you do when nobody's watching.
~ Unknown

Youth is a gift of nature. Age is a work of art.
~ Unknown

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
~ Unknown

[SmokeyBob]

When everything seems to be going against you, remember the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
~ Henry Ford

There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over.
~ Carl W. Buechner

Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
~ Ralph Charell

[SmokeyBob]

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
~ Chinese proverb

Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
~ Unknown

There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.
~ Proverbs 23:18

[SmokeyBob]

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery even on a detour.
~ Unknown

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
~ Albert Einstein

Yesterday is history, tomorrow's a mystery. Today is a gift and that's why they call it the present.
~ Unknown

[SmokeyBob]

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is the one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
~Sydney J. Harris

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
~Cicero

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
~Ray Bradbury

[SmokeyBob]

"A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other."
~Portuguese Proverb

My little brother was a mean, vicious child. He would always hit me back.
~Unknown

"Action cures fear, inaction creates terror."
~Doug Horton

[SmokeyBob]

When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.
~Alan Paton

Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat.
~E. Merrill Root

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
~John Ruskin

[SmokeyBob]

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
~ John Steinbeck

You create your opportunities by asking for them.
~ Patty Hansen

Every man stamps his value on himself. Man is made great or small by his own will.
~ J.C.F. von Schiller

[SmokeyBob]

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
~ Carl W. Buechner

Give me a sense of humor, Lord. Give me the grace to see a joke. To get some humor out of life and pass it on to other folk.
~ Unknown

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
~ Francis Maitland Balfour

[SmokeyBob]

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.
~ Louisa May Alcott

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
~ Henry Boye

[SmokeyBob]

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
~ Abraham Maslow

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.
~ Frank Knox

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
~ Lao Tzu

[SmokeyBob]

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~ Mary Pickford

Forgive all who have offended you. Not for them, but for yourself.
~ Unknown

Wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, you will have a bright future and your hopes will not be cut short.
~ Proverbs 24:14

[SmokeyBob]

Be who are you and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
~Dr. Seuss

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
~Abraham Lincoln

[SmokeyBob]

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ~ Thomas A. Edison

[SmokeyBob]

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness or perhaps of sub-consciousness. I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
~ Aaron Copland

We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping.
~ Unknown

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities. Always see them, for they're always there.
~ Norman Vincent Peale