Good Living 123

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“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

– Sir Claude McDonald (1852 – 1915)
British soldier & diplomat

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“I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”

— Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826)
American Founding Father & primary author of the Declaration of Independence;
2nd US Vice President & 3rd US President

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“A friend is someone who accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”

— William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
English playwright & poet

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“Freedom is not America’s gift to the world; it is Almighty God’s gift to every man and woman in this world.”

— Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004)
American actor & California Governor
40th President of the United States (1981 – 89)

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“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”

— Oprah Winfrey (1954 – )
American TV host & producer, actress & author

Love it or hate it, this is National Candy Corn Day. George Renninger is credited with inventing candy corn while employed at the Wunderlee Candy Company in Philadelphia in the 1880s. The iconic yellow, orange, and white treats were popularized and mass-produced starting in 1898 by the Goelitz Confectionery Company, which later became known as the Jelly Belly Candy Company, which still uses the same original recipe and proudly claims the longest history of continuously producing candy corn. (My teeth hurt.)

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“One man with courage makes a majority.”

— Andrew Jackson (1767 – 1845)
US Army General &
7th President of the United States

“Believe in yourself!  Have faith in your abilities!  Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.”

— Norman Vincent Peal (1898-1993)
American pastor, author of “The Power of Positive Thinking” in 1952

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“From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.”

— Proverb

“May you never forget what is worth remembering or remember what is best forgotten.”

— Unknown

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“Every exit is an entry somewhere.”

Sir Tom Stoppard (1937 – )
Czechoslovakian British playwright

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“A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.”

— Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
(circa 4 BC – 65 AD)
Roman Stoic philosopher
from Letters from a Stoic

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“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”

— Scott Hamilton (1958 – )
American figure skater (retired) & Olympic gold medalist

“Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.”

— Richard Bach (1936 – )
American author

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“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”

— Anne Frank (1929 – 1945)
German Jewish girl & diarist who perished in the Nazi Holocaust

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”

— Hal Borland (1900 – 1978)
American writer & journalist

“It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.”

— Voltaire (1694 – 1778) Francois-Marie Arouet (M. de Voltaire was his nom de plume)
French Enlightenment writer and satirist,
Noted for criticism of slavery and advocacy of freedom of speech and religion

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“You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.”

— Joseph B. Wirthlin (1917 – 2008)
American businessman & religious leader in the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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“In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)
German philosopher & cultural critic

“Intellectuals solve problems;

geniuses prevent them.”

— Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
German-born theoretical physicist & Nobel laureate

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

— Albert Schweitzer (1875 – 1965)
German French polymath, philosopher, physician & Nobel laureate

My deepest thanks to everyone who has kept the torch glowing or been there to brighten my world when I needed it most, especially when you didn’t even know my flame had been doused or my spirits dampened.

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

— Margaret Fuller (1810 – 1850)
American journalist, critic, & women’s rights advocate

“If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.”

— Catherine Aird (pen name of Kinn Hamilton McIntosh) (1930 – 2024)
English  novelist