Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

It's our attitude in life that determines life's attitude toward us.
~Earl Nightingale

We learn to walk by stumbling.
~Bulgarian proverb

For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
~Vincent van Gogh

[SmokeyBob]

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
~Sheila Graham

Some minds are like concrete. Thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
~Unknown

When the solution is simple, God is answering.
~Albert Einstein

[SmokeyBob]

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
~Lydia M. Child

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
~Unknown

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter. And gradually over the years, it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
~John Gregory Brown

[SmokeyBob]

One day in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
~Sigmund Freud

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

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
~Samuel Ullman

[SmokeyBob]

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master. He can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
~Epictetus

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
~Unknown

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
~Dr. Benjamin Spock

[SmokeyBob]

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return and you may remain in ignorance.
~William Wirt

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

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
~Bernard M. Baruch

[SmokeyBob]

If we truly expect to realize our dreams, we must abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone’s expectations is the number one goal, we have sacrificed our uniqueness, and therefore our excellence. ~ Hope Solo (Two time Olympic gold medalist soccer player)

[SmokeyBob]

It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.
~Thomas Carlyle

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

Love is what you've been through with somebody.
~James Thurber

[SmokeyBob]

Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
~Unknown

When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief, but intrinsic participation with it.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
~Unknown

[SmokeyBob]

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
~Andre Gide

The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.
~Confucius

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a king.
~John Milton

[SmokeyBob]

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.
~Unknown

Self-respect is the root of discipline. The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
~Abraham Joshua Heschel

[SmokeyBob]

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
~Harvey Mackay

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courtesy is doing unto others what you would like them to do unto you.
~Unknown

[SmokeyBob]

Success is a journey, not a destination.
~Ben Sweetland

Never fight an inanimate object.
~P. J. O'Rourke

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
~George Jean Nathan

[SmokeyBob]

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.

A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands.
~Unknown

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
~Samuel Johnson

[SmokeyBob]

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them. ~ Will Rogers