Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"Instant gratification takes too long."
~Carrie Fisher

"Always remember, money isn't everything—but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense." ~Earl Wilson

"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go."
~Margaret Walker

[SmokeyBob]

"Do what we can, summer will have its flies."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
~Pablo Picasso

"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."
~Ethiopian proverb

[SmokeyBob]

Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
~Marilyn vos Savant

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
~Horace

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

[SmokeyBob]

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
~Lord Byron

Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.
~Unknown

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
~M. Scott Peck

[SmokeyBob]

A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. ... Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is the secret of the tree. -- Deng Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao

[SmokeyBob]

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
~Edmund Burke

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
~Romain Gary

[SmokeyBob]

Hatred is an acid that corrodes its container.
~Tonya Baker

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
~Thomas A. Edison

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
~Julia Sorel

[SmokeyBob]

Even if you are the on right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
~Will Rogers

Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
~Vince Lombardi

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second best policy.
~George Carlin

[SmokeyBob]

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
~Lao-Tzu

Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
~Scottie Pippen

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
~John Wooden

[len19070]

There are more Plastic Flamingos in the USA than there are Real ones.

Happy Trails

Len

[SmokeyBob]

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
~Dale Carnegie

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.
~Anon

[SmokeyBob]

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
~William Jennings Bryan

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
~Joseph Campbell

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
~Alan Kay

[SmokeyBob]

A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands.
~Unknown

But the moment you turn a corner, you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
~Samuel Johnson

[SmokeyBob]

"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are, in fact, plans to protect man."
~Stewart Udall

"How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?"
~Tony Robbins

[SmokeyBob]

"The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse."
~Confucius

"Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within."
~Steven H. Coogler

"Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost part of your life."
~Michael Leboeuf