DAILY QUOTA:

"For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction...A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three--the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings."
- Peter McWilliams

"For everything you have missed you have gained something else."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A different approach
A woman was at her wit's end with her husband's drinking. When he came home late and drunk as usual one night, she decided to try something she read in a magazine. Instead of yelling and demanding to know where he had been, she smiled and asked him how his day was. Instead of throwing things in his general direction, she poured him his favorite drink and told him to relax. When she could see he was nodding off, instead of telling him he could sleep on the couch, she started giving him a nice massage. The woman found herself starting to have hope that this new approach might change her alcoholic husband. Just then, before the drunk passed out she heard him mutter, almost incoherently, "We probably shouldn't but lets just do it. Either way, my wife will be mad at me."

To all Americans on this Thanksgiving Day: This blog's for You!

DAILY QUOTA:

"...It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father Who dwelleth in the heavens.
--Abraham Lincoln: Thanksgiving Proclamation (1863)

"When insects take over the world we hope they will remember, with gratitude, how we took them along on all our picnics."
- Bill Vaughan

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Drunk's vow of silence
A drunk wanted to stop drinking so he thought joining a monastery would help. He chose one where all the brothers took a vow of silence: they could only speak once a year, and even then, only to the head monk. After a year went by the dry drunk was called into the office. The head monk asked, "It's been a year, is there anything you would like to say?" The dry monk said, "My bed's too hard." Another year went by and this time when he had the chance to speak the monk said, "The food's always cold." The head monk glared back at him and replied: "You know, ever since you got here, all you do is complain."

DAILY QUOTA:

"There are things that are known, and things that are unknown. In between there are doors."
- William Blake

"He was an alcoholic. Jim Morrison met the definition of drinking to excess every day. He got drunk on one drink and he just kept on drinking...Jim was not a hard-drug guy. His drug of choice was alcohol."
- Frank Lisciandro

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Enlisted
A drunk came to after a long bender and found that he had enlisted in the army. At the mess hall, he took one look at the slop on his tray and asked the private next to him, "This looks just awful, don't we get a choice?" The private replied: "Sure you do--take it or leave it."

DAILY QUOTA:

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
-Saint Augustine

"I am extraordinarily patient--provided I get my own way in the end."
- Margaret Thatcher

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Patience, booze and boots
A drunk was leaving a party and kept falling over as he tried putting on his winter boots. After witnessing the fiasco, the host's wife came over and started helping him. After much struggling she managed to get the boots on the drunk, when he said, "You know, these aren't my boots." Shaking her head, she reversed the process to get the boots off of him, when he protested, "Why did you take them off? They're my brother's boots and he said I could wear them." Using all the patience she could muster, she put the boots back on the drunk, when he complained: "Hey, what are you doing? I need my mittens and they're stuffed in the toes of the boots."

DAILY QUOTA:

"A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool. Similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes or his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing."
- Seneca

"Before God we are all equally wise--and equally foolish."
- Albert Einstein

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Drunk's neighbor
A drunk was in court waiting his turn to face the judge for driving under the influence. Much to his surprise, his neighbor was there being questioned by the judge in a different case. The judge said, "It says here you were arguing with your wife and you threatened her with a hammer. Is this true?" When the neighbor admitted the accusation, the drunk leaped up and shouted, "You liar!" The judge pounded his gavel and asked the drunk what he was shouting about. The drunk replied: "I'm sorry your honor, but that man has been my neighbor for ten years, and every time I asked if I could borrow a hammer, he said he didn't have one."

DAILY QUOTA:

"The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future."
- Herbert Spencer

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
- William James

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Hump
A drunk had a huge disfiguring hump on his back. Since it didn't interfere with his drinking, he never did anything about it. Finally, his buddies talked him into going to see a doctor. But at first, the drunk refused to remove his shirt. He told the doctor he seldom went shirtless because he was too embarrassed. It took much coaxing and reassuring, but the drunk finally took his shirt off. As he was examining his back, the doctor asked, "When did you start drinking so heavily?" The drunk told him, "In my college days." The doctor inquired further, "And you carried a lot of books around?" The man confirmed it, "Sure, just like all the other kids did." The doctor replied: "That's what I thought. Did you ever wonder where you left your backpack?"

DAILY QUOTA:

"If I am walking with two men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
- Confucius

"To hit bottom is to fall from grace."
- Doug Horton

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Drunk takes a fall
A drunk got a new job working at a construction site. On his first day, hungover from the night before, he fell two stories and landed flat on his back. As he was shaking it off, seemingly without much injury, the foreman rushed over, "Goodness gracious man, are you alright? Quick, someone get this man a drink of water." The drunk replied: "Is that all? How far does a guy need to fall to get a beer?"

DAILY QUOTA:

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."
-Erich Fromm

"Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake."
- William James

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Chicken crossed the road
A chicken crossed the road, went into a bar, and started drinking heavily. The bartender became concerned and asked, "Hey, are you alright?" The chicken replied: "Thanks for your concern. You're the first person who didn't ask me why I crossed the road."