Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"Art must take reality by surprise."
~Francoise Sagan

"Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep."
~Fran Lebowitz

"Because of a great love, one is courageous."
~Lao Tzu

[SmokeyBob]

Life is either a grand adventure or nothing.
~ Helen Keller

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.
~ Malcolm Forbes

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
~ Pablo Picasso

[SmokeyBob]

A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well or ill?
~ John Steinbeck

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
~ George Carlin

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by men.
~ Ortega Y. Gassett

[Senior Ninja]

" To whom much is given, much is expected."
The Bible

"If it is to be, it is up to me."
Unknown (to me anyway)

[SmokeyBob]

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing and conveys much.
~Erastus Wiman

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
~Charles Du Bos

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
~Lee Iococca

[SmokeyBob]

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
~ Mark Twain

The trouble with opportunity is that it's always more recognizable going than coming.
~ Unknown

Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
~ Mark Twain

[SmokeyBob]

Two men look out the same prison bars: one sees mud and the other stars.
~Frederick Langbridge

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
~Sophia Loren

We are all of us living in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
~Oscar Wilde

[SmokeyBob]

"I got rid of my husband. The cat was allergic..."

"You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats."
~ Colonial American proverb

"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast."

[SmokeyBob]

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
~Buddha

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
~Buddha

[Verna]

Use the talents you possess, for the world would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.
--Unknown

[SmokeyBob]

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
~Indira Gandhi

To acquire knowledge, one must study, but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
~Marilyn vos Savant

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

[SmokeyBob]

"Be who you are and say what you feel: because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
~Dr. Suess

"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing."
~Robert Benchley

"I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead."
~Samuel Goldwyn

[SmokeyBob]

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
~ Earl Nightingale

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean, happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.
~ Anais Nin

Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.
~ Randolph S. Bourne

[SmokeyBob]

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
~ William James

The irony of life is that by the time you're old enough to know your way around, you're not going anywhere.
~ Unknown

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
~ Jeremy Irons

[SmokeyBob]

"Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress."
~Alfred A. Montapert

"A noisy cow gives little milk."
~Polish proverb

"When birds burp it must taste like bugs."
~Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes)