Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong."
~Oscar Wilde

"It's inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."
~Henrik Ibsen

"Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper."
~G. K. Chesterton

[SmokeyBob]

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
~Alexis Carrel

Advice is like snow; the softer is falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
~Teresa of Avila

[SmokeyBob]

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
~Arthur Miller

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
~Harvey Fierstein

"People living deeply have no fear of death."
~Anais Nin

[SmokeyBob]

A people that values its privileges above its principals soon loses both.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
~Benjamin Franklin

Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~Thomas A. Edison

[SmokeyBob]

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
~Chinese Proverb

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every human being is unique and of value.
~Unknown

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[SmokeyBob]

" I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
~Mahatma Gandhi

" While you're throwing dirt, you're losing ground."
~ Letha Watts

" All that we are is a result of what we have thought."
~Buddha

[SmokeyBob]

The most damaging phrase in the language is: It's always been done that way.
~Grace Hopper

What's right is right, no matter how few people do it. What's wrong is wrong, no matter how many people do it.
~Unknown

To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself, it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline is about.
~James Clavell

[SmokeyBob]

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
~Ruth Graham

Perhaps, the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
~Thomas H. Huxley

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
~Anatole France

[SmokeyBob]

The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.
~Arthur H. Stainback

I'm just moving clouds today. Tomorrow, I'll try mountains.
~Unknown

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
~Prov 18:24

[SmokeyBob]

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
~William James

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
~E. M. Bounds

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.
~Baltasar Gracian

[SmokeyBob]

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
~Frederick Langbridge

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~Unknown

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
~Dorothy Thompson

[SmokeyBob]

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
~Sir Winston Churchill

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Embrace all equally.
~Unknown

Old age ain't no place for sissies.
~Bette Davis

[SmokeyBob]

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.
~yron Edwards

Don't worry about temptation. As you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
~Old Farmer's Almanac

[SmokeyBob]

We must never despair. Our situation has been compromising before and it changed for the better, so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.
~George Washington

A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.
~American proverb

I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force. My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.
~Og Mandino

[SmokeyBob]

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"All things are difficult before they are easy."
~Thomas Fuller

"Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work."
~Al Capp