Food 4 Thought Have a Bite by Edgar Allan Prieto Volume 6 Forward If you can nibble and not get full you'll find that you can digest it all As you turn from one to next and browse through The Book of Thoughts Do not be afraid to take a bite For Food 4 Thought has an appetite So read and digest all you can Even share it with a friend But please! Do not swallow my book it's only to be read and not cooked. Written by Edgar Allan Prieto May 12,1985
Assumption To assume something is safe is to invite disaster 7/16/78 Advice is like a Prescription if you don't fill it you can't use it 8/4/78 Advice is a little bit of both and half of none 8/4/78 Advice He who gives advice let it not be opinion 9/18/78 Advice all advice is not good advice unless the worth behind it is wisdom 10/7/78 (B) Born: We are all born together in God's thoughts 5/6/85 Business: do they fit? I don't try to get into anybody else's pants And I don't want them to get into mine 10/28/78 (C) Competition: is the ability to compete not necessarily the win 10/16/77 Challenge Life does not offer what you want it only serves what you have 11/23/77 Choice One choice early may be a mistake One choice late may Not come One choice not made may be the one One choice right or wrong 9/28/87 Child you hold your child and they are the world I hold the world and she is my child 6/4/87 If I choose to walk a path then I choose to change it too 12/10/87 (D) Deceit only deceives itself For Truth has not spoken to it 4/3/79 Desire is a want that has no need 8/25/77 Death is a door we have not open 11/17/77 Distances Time can distance us apart but the furthest is when I found a friend that was not true 4/17/87 (E) Expert An Expert is one who tends his knowledge for in a minute He will be lost to answer why he does not know 2/12/80 End This Moment of Solitude must come to an end it's like the Thought its birth it's end 11/18/77 Education: is a way to find out what you don't know 4/23/79 (F) Fate: No hand can stop my fate only God who put me here for when It swings once, twice I will be no more 9/1/84 Fate: We make our own Fate but Destiny guides us to it 7/21/78 Foolishness: We are never so foolish as we are when we're young And never so wise as we are when we think we're old 2/8/80 Fool: I am no man's fool but myself 2/4/80 Fools: The only Fool that admires and Old Fool is a new one 10/10/77 Friend: The distance between Friends is the time it takes to think of them 2/15/80 Friends are your assets you can bank on so where are my deposits today? 10/9/77 Friends: if I have one enemy let me count my friends 10/10/77 Friends: Success and I are very old friends and so is Failure but I hope I'll see Success more 6/9/85 Faith: is a belief in God and in yourself 9/29/78 Failure becomes successful only when Success Fails to Succeed 4/1/81 Failure: is triumph for Success is merely the end of it For without Failure how can you Succeed? 4/8/87 Failure: is a word to tell you that you did not try hard enough 9/14/78 Feelings: the warmest place is on your face when love comes in 7/12/78 Faults: what faults we have maybe our seeds to greatness? 7/28/78 Flex: I am from the old school but I am always ready for new ideals 10/28/78 Fitness: get your heart into shape for your body won't be the same Essence: I am no more than the essence is me but the essence in me is more than I know 1/21/87 Frown: you can't go through life with a long face so shorten it with a smile 2/5/87 (G) Gift: a gift is not measured by its size but by the love within your heart 12/20/85 Gift: a gift is not seasonal but when you feel it in the heart 12/14/86 Great: I am not great I only feel great things 5/7/85 Greatness: can only be great if it has humility 5/15/79 God: is the lighthouse He shines our way 4/5/85 God: There are many truths but only one for your soul that He is 9/17/78 God: all truth is His 9/25/78 God: is my keeper I'll pay my bills to Him 4/5/85 God: if I am great let it be by God's hand 10/12/88 God: decides what is right your conscience decides what you do 10/25/88 Godspeed, God willing may you find peace and lighten your heart For the world is bare and you must carry love God: when I am by myself God is with me when I am alone I left Him 12/25/88 (H) Handicap: we are all Handicapped For we are imperfect be it Mental, Physical, or Emotional For we are all Handicapped by what we can't do ourselves And Handicap ourselves by what we can do 12/29/86 Hope: it's only darker if you put out the light 2/17/80 Half baked anything half done is only half finish 10/11/77 Half Cocked if you go Half Cocked you won't be fully loaded try not to get too loaded you'd only fire off 6/7/85 Human: if you treat me as Human's you will not be disappointed but If you treat me as more you will always be disappointed 9/5/81 Human: I am all but yet I am me part you part me connected by our Human self 11/9/88 Intelligence: is born out of wisdom 7/28/78 Intelligence: what good is intelligence if you don't use it wisely 7/29/78 (K) Kindness: is a medicine we all need so take it each and every day 2/13/80 Knowledge: the only way to extend life is to live it 10/23/77 (L) Love: does not make a relationship perfect it only makes it loved 4/11/80 Love: if you love me, love all of me but I'll go for the best part first Love: I have been in love once and it's been all my life 2/18/80 Love: is born from feelings and once given birth it is not yours to keep 2/8/80 Love: shines no matter what face you wear 2/5/80 Love: and we need each other and without neither can exist 10/16/77 Love: is like a flower how you care for it will determine how strong it will become 1/10/80 Love: is tender to those who feel? 11/16/77 Love: that passes into time will be eternal Love: is as endless as the sands, for every grain is its feeling Love and caring: here's a doctor's bill that won't cost you money But it will be hell to pay on your heart 6/10/85 life: a choice of life: you have a right to choose life and you have a right to choose your will but in the end you'll find A greater life has chosen you 3/12/86 Love: a man that holds office and holds no heart holds an empty Cup and can only be filled if he pours his heart 1/25/88 Love: does not question it answers you 7/3/88 Love: does not serve itself but those who seek it 3/22/88 Limit: to limit oneself is to encase life to go beyond is to find yourself 1/21/87 Life: there are no home runs in this ballpark only that you play it right 2/6/87 Life: the path you walked in life will extend in death 5/24/86 Life: should not be judged by what shape it is rather by what it is a shape, that shapes itself 12/27/86 Life: you have your whole life ahead of you but only for a day 8/18/88 Life: course change if I choose to walk a path then I choose to change it too If I take the left I can then take the right if I stay where I am I make no course to change wrong or right I'll take my life where I can only change 12/10/87 Love: was born but shaped by heart held inside until love grew through 1/9/89 (M) mind: some people carry their heads and some people use them 10/15/77 Mistrust: the only threat to your love is your own mistrust 10/12/78 Morality: does not change only your concepts? 11/21/77 Measured: what measure? you, measure by never measures up 7/11/78 Morning: may the morning of the day be a beginning of your life 10/31/78 Misery: the worse thing than misery is keeping it company 9/22/85 Mankind: is not a flower a flower? Not because of its color but Because it is are we not, one race because it is? 12/25/88 Negative: is a light bulb burned out so replace it 2/8/80 Nuts: since you like squirrel's I though you would be crazy about me Nuts: if we were all nuts the squirrels would get us 10/15/77 Need: is the fruit of necessity 8/25/77 (O) Opinion: is the absence of fact 9/18/78 Ourselves: the more one becomes what they are not the more they Lose of what they are 9/2/77 Offend: if I offend you truth will show you more and hurt you Less if you face it 6/22/87 Positive: is what you have when you get a charge 2/8/80 Perseverance: I may not always be right but I'll try not to be wrong 7/10/77 Poetry: is something that can't be taught only felt 9/6/78 Poet: an artist captures beauty a poet captures words 9/8/77 Patience: things won't last long if you get too quick 8/26/77 Patience: is the fruit of our toil 8/31/77 Patience: is a virtue that few of us can afford or are willing to pay 8/31/77 Poetry: is The Soul of Life For it cries out When Words are Spoken 11/8/88 Product: I am not a product of Government but of God and Humanity 2/12/87 Point to point: A man is not measured by his pencil but how he writes with it no eraser, only mistakes no paper to write, only life no reports to grade only failures and success 4/18/87 Poet: I was born when a tear cried 1/19/89 (R) Rainbow: the rainbow and love are better untouched like the rainbow in the pond For you take away the beauty if you try to hold it in your hand 2/16/80 Revenge: is not sweet it pays in sorrow 9/5/98? Road: the only road I have not crossed is the one I have not walked Remember: if you forget who I am I am what you did not remember 12/21/88 (S) Struggles: life is a struggle and without struggles there would Be no success only failure of success 5/6/85 Suffering: Dr. Reed's Prescription take one, it's painless if you Want to suffer less find one who suffers more Va. Hospital in Memphis 7/20/79 Spirit: the human spirit needs to find its soul to feel life's surge of greatness to be one with her 5/6/85 Shame: don't do anything today that you can't look at to tomorrow 9/6/81 Flesh and soul: if I could be as hard as granite I would be less than flesh and bone if I could assure you my heart and soul are one with them you'll know I was not steel of granite if you can see the tears That fall you'll know there is a soul in this 5/11/85
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