Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
--Charles M. Schulz

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
--Turkish proverb

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
--Samuel Butler

[SmokeyBob]

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
--Publilius Syrus

Hatred is an acid that corrodes its container.
--Tonya Baker

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
--Arthur Koestler

[SmokeyBob]

He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
--Japanese proverb

Moral courage and character go hand in hand. A man of real character is consistently courageous, being imbued with a basic integrity and a firm sense of principle.
--Martha Boaz

The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift.
--Pierre Corneille

[SmokeyBob]

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ~ James Arthur Baldwin

[SmokeyBob]

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast, you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

~Eddie Cantor

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
~Mary Tyler Moore

Enjoy the little things, for one day, you may look back and realize they were the big things.
~Robert Brault

[SmokeyBob]

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

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.
~Marva Collins

[SmokeyBob]

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his brain is a craftsman, but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
~Louis Nizer

Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever.
~Unknown
No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
~Mother Teresa

[SmokeyBob]

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
Ron White

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Ellen DeGeneres

[SmokeyBob]

To be satisfied with what one has, that is wealth.
~Mark Twain

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
~Unknown

When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.
~Kathleen A. Sutton

[SmokeyBob]

Love is not a feeling, it's an act of your will.
~Don Francisco

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans, we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
~Linda Ellerbee

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
~Evan Esar

[SmokeyBob]

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
Rodney Dangerfield

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
Robert Kennedy

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

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.
~Constance Baker Motley

[SmokeyBob]

"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
~Herbert Hoover

"Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror."
~Al Boliska

"An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's."
~Will Rogers

[SmokeyBob]

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas a Kempis

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Will Rogers

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan

[SmokeyBob]

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katharine Graham

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein