Thought for the day or Something to think about.

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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Thu Nov 08, 2012 1:23 pm

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"I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong."
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"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Fri Nov 09, 2012 11:49 am

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
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Sun Nov 11, 2012 4:04 pm

Four very powerful words to say to a child: I BELIEVE IN YOU.” Kevin Heath - CEO More4kids
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Mon Nov 12, 2012 2:07 pm

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
~Mahatma Gandhi

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
~Thomas Merton

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
~Napoleon Bonaparte
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Thu Nov 15, 2012 10:21 am

It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt.
~Abraham Lincoln

Moralality is a compass forever fixed and forever true. It's not a weathervane blowing with the winds.
~Unknown

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
~George Eliot
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:34 pm

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away.
~Elvis Presley

Remember, obstacles are simply opportunities for advancement.
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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
~Amelia Earhart
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:26 am

While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about. ~ Angela Schwindt
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Tue Nov 20, 2012 7:13 pm

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
~Dag Hammarskjold

There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over.
~Carl W. Buechner

We are all of us living in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
~Oscar Wilde
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Thu Nov 22, 2012 9:18 am

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
~R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Success doesn't come to you. You go to it.
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Fri Nov 23, 2012 10:47 am

"It is said that the present is pregnant with the future."
~Voltaire

"When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays."
~Henny Youngman

"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Sun Nov 25, 2012 1:09 am

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” ― William Arthur Ward
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Mon Nov 26, 2012 10:48 am

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

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
~Charles Dickens

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Thu Nov 29, 2012 1:54 pm

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
~Mother Jones

When you walk with wise men, you will become wise, but a companion of fools will be destroyed.
~Proverbs 13:20

Make yourself an honest man and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
~Thomas Carlyle
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby SmokeyBob » Sun Dec 02, 2012 10:21 pm

Worry is like a rocking-chair. It gives us something to do but gets us nowhere.” ― Wayne Bennett
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Re: Thought for the day or Something to think about.

Postby KevinC » Sun Dec 02, 2012 11:53 pm

SmokeyBob wrote:Worry is like a rocking-chair. It gives us something to do but gets us nowhere.” ― Wayne Bennett



That is really good! I need to print that out and hang it on my wall. Thank you for posting the quote!! :applause:
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