Good Living 123

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Celebrate the International Day of Living Together in Peace by practicing and promoting peace, tolerance, understanding, and solidarity. Divisiveness and negativity have no place. Let’s embrace differences and show genuine respect. Only together can we make this a reality.

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885)
French author, playwright, and politician

“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.”

— William Osler (1849 – 1919)
Canadian physician and founding professor of Johns Hopkins Hospital

“The only people I owe my loyalty to are those who never made me question theirs.”

— Anonymous

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”

— Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate

“Listen now to the gentle whispers of hope.”

— Charles D. Brodhead (1827 – 1913)
Postmaster and served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives 1859 – 1861

Photo by Daniel Mirlea

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

— Mae West (1893 – 1980)
American actress and singer

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”

— James Oppenheim (1882 – 1932)
American poet, novelist, and editor

For World Wish Day, I make this wish.

With all my heart and soul I wish for compassion, caring, and peace.

Photo by Sulmanry Saavedra

“Freedom is never given; it is won.”

— A. Phillip Randolph (1889 – 1979)
American civil rights activist

“I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow, but to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 1968)
American Baptist minister & civil rights activist

“Enthusiasm reflects confidence, spreads good cheer, raises morale, inspires associates, arouses loyalty, and laughs at adversity … it is beyond price.”

— Allan V. Cox (1926 – 1987)
American geophysicist

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“Character is like a tree and reputation a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

— Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
American statesman; 16th President: 1861-65; assassinated following Civil War

“Seeing is not believing; believing is seeing! You see things, not as they are, but as you are.”

— Eric Butterworth (1916 – 2003)
Canadian-American author and spiritual teacher
(from his 2001 book, Spiritual Economics)

“There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

— Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937)
American writer & designer

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“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

— Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
German-born theoretical physicist; developed theory of relativity

Photo by Jill Wellington

“If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-65AD)
Roman philosopher and statesman

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”

— Chinese proverb

“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”

— Carol Burnett (1933 – )
American comedian and actress

“Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.”

— Robert H. Schuller (1926 – 2015)
American author, motivational speaker, and televangelist

“Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.”

— Mark Twain (pen name for Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
19th Century American author and humorist

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
German poet, statesman, and critic

“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”

— Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
English writer, director, and filmmaker

Photo by Susan Wilkinson

“Art is a house that tries to be haunted.”

— Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)
American poet