Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.
~Mike Ditka

When one door closes, another door opens. But we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.
~Alexander Graham Bell

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
~Howard W. Newton

[SmokeyBob]

Love is the best medicine and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart.
~Julie Marie

I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares, but has learned how to deal with them.
~Beverly Sills

I can forgive, but I cannot forget is only another way of saying I cannot forgive.
~Henry Ward Beecher

[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

Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall, but don't rush to pick him up either.
~Jewish proverb

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

[SmokeyBob]

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step, remember, you can only take one step at a time". And. . . "Take the time it takes so it takes less time."

[SmokeyBob]

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
~Robert F. Kennedy

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

[SmokeyBob]

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart and you shall see that in truth, you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
~Khalil Gibran

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
~Unknown

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
~Norman MacFinan

[SmokeyBob]

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

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
~Glenn Clark

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
~George Bernard Shaw

[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.
~François de la Rochefoucauld

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
~James Truslow Adams

When one door closes, another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
~Alexander Graham Bell

[SmokeyBob]

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
~William Hazlitt

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
~Pierre Beaumarchais

Children need models rather than critics.
~Joseph Joubert

[SmokeyBob]

"Nothing will work unless you do."
~Maya Angelou

"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old."
~George Burns

"The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[SmokeyBob]

"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."
~Ansel Adams

"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
~Vince Lombardi

"Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy."
~Drew Barrymore

[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

[SmokeyBob]

The future starts today, not tomorrow. ~ Pope John Paul II

[Prem]

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles. --Karen Armstrong

[SmokeyBob]

Forgiving is love's toughest work and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.
~Lewis B. Smedes

Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
~Unknown

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.
~H.A. Overstreet