Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
~ Julia Sorel

If the future seems overwhelming, remember that it comes one moment at a time.
~ Unknown

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]

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
~ Albert Einstein

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

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
~ Albert Einstein

[SmokeyBob]

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs, since the payment is pure love.
~Mildred B. Vermont

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
~Rajneesh

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
~Sophia Loren

[SmokeyBob]

There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the truths and saying, "We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail."
~ Jim Collins

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
~ H.G. Wells

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.
~ Aldons Huxley

[SmokeyBob]

"Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left."
~Jean Kerr

"Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose."
~Beverley Nichols

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"
~Groucho Marx

[SmokeyBob]

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~Mark Twain

Wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, you will have a bright future and your hopes will not be cut short.
~Proverbs 24:14

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

[Jiminsav]

how come, in space movies, all the space ships move the same way...they fly straight and level, and when they meet another ship, it's on the same plane and in an opposite direction from the first ship..how come ships don't pass at odd angles, or fly 90­ degrees to each other..or upside down, since there is no gravity in space...how come?

[SmokeyBob]

Find something to be happy about every day and every hour, even if only for a few minutes and if possible, moment to moment.
~ Unknown

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have and should have.
~ Louis E. Boone

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

[SmokeyBob]

The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside.
~Robert Stuberg

Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
~Ernest Holmes

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
~David Borenstein

[SmokeyBob]

Whenever you feel that something as simple as a smile or a kind act will go unnoticed, do it anyway. You never know how much it might change someone else's life.
~Erin Bishop

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge.
~Carmelia Elliot

[SmokeyBob]

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.
~ Robert Packwood

Any time one person makes an effort to contact a deeper part of him or herself, balance his or her emotions and deflect the stress momentum, others benefit. As more individuals learn to maintain their poise and balance and refrain from adding to the incoherence around them, they help to counterbalance the frequency of stress.
~ Howard Martin and Doc Childre

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
~ Doug Larson

[SmokeyBob]

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.
~David Augsburger

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.
~Grover Cleveland

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

[SmokeyBob]

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
~Robert Frost

"Age considers; youth ventures."
~Rabindranath Tagore

"No man is ever old enough to know better."
~Holbrook Jackson

[SmokeyBob]

A question


If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be "delighted"?

[SmokeyBob]

"He who angers you conquers you."
~Elizabeth Kenny

I think I am. Therefore I am...I think.
~George Carlin

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
~C. S. Lewis