Good Living 123

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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

Photo by Manfred Richter

“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

Photo by Saira Ahmed

“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

Photo by Saimy Patel

“If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.”

George D. Aiken (1892 – 1984)
US Senator 1941 – 1975
64th Governor of Vermont 1937 – 1941

“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.”

— Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
American naturalist, philosopher, and writer
As written in his Journal on January 21, 1838

Photo by Mads Severinsen

“If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow.”

— Arabian proverb

“Earth laughs in flowers.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
American writer & philosopher

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“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

-Greek proverb

“A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.”

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
English statesman, poet

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September 21^st is the annual International Day of Peace. May peace grow in everyone’s hearts.

“The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.”

— Arthur Powell Davies (1902 – 1957)
English American Unitarian minister

Photo by Tiffany Chan

“A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives the rose.”

— Chinese proverb

“Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.”

— Will Smith (1968 – )
American actor, rapper & film producer

(Photo by Alexander Mils)

Photo by Matt Collamer

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?” 

— Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
American social activist & stateswoman
U.S. First Lady: 1933-45; Ambassador to UN