Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
~Anton Chekhov

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

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

[SmokeyBob]

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
~Anton Chekhov

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

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

[SmokeyBob]

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
~Hank Aaron

It ain't over 'till it's over.
~Yogi Berra

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
~Leo Durocher

[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]

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
~Unknown

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
~Elizabeth Kubler Ross

Troubles in marriage often start when one gets too busy earning the salt that they forget their sugar.
~Unknown

[SmokeyBob]

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

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
~Unknown

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
~David Viscott

[SmokeyBob]

In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
~Unknown

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.
~William James

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

[SmokeyBob]

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~Mark Twain

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

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
~Harriet Woods

[SmokeyBob]

Hope is the last thing that dies in man, and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life, it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
~Fracois de la Rochefoucauld

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
~Doug Larson

A fellow told me he was going to hang-glider school. He said, "I've been going for three months." I said, "How many successful jumps do you need to make before you graduate"? He said, "All of them."
~Red Skelton

[SmokeyBob]

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

Learn to write your hurts in sand; learn to carve your blessings in stone.
~Unknown

Movement is medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional and mental states.
~Carol Welch

[SmokeyBob]

Great minds think alike.
~Anon

Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.
~Lord Thomas Dewar

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
~Robert Frost

[SmokeyBob]

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
~Elmer Davis

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed; else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

[SmokeyBob]

"Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left."
~Jean Kerr

"Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose."
~Beverley Nichols

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"
~Groucho Marx

[SmokeyBob]

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised and wise and our own, today.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we play is life.
~Louis Armstrong

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

[SmokeyBob]

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.
~David Augsburger

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.
~Grover Cleveland

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in.
~Morrie Schwartz