Good Living 123

Photo by Riccardo Annandale

“Sanity is a madness put to good use.”

— George Santayana (1863 – 1952)
Spanish philosopher, poet & novelist

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”

— Sir Thomas George Barnett Cocks (1907 – 1989)
British clerk in the Parliament of the UK

“I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.”

— Joyce Meyer (1943 – )
American Christian author and speaker

Photo by Zac Durant

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

— George W. Bush (1946 – )
American politician, businessman, & former US Air Force officer
43rd President of the U.S. (1995 – 2000)

Photo by Brett Jordan

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”

— Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Indian lawyer, spiritual & political leader, and nonviolent resistance advocate

“I predict that one of these two teams will win the Super Bowl.”

— Gilbert Gottfried (1955 – 2022)
American stand-up comedian & actor

May the best (Patriots) team (Patriots) win (Patriots)!

Go Pats!

Photo by Michal Navrat

“You must first be a believer if you would be an achiever.”

— Unknown

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien (1892 – 1973)
English writer, poet & scholar

Photo by Brett Jordan

“It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906 – 2001)
American writer & aviator

Photo by Marek Studzinski

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”

— George Washington (1732-1799)
US statesman; 1st US President (1789-97)
General of the Revolutionary Army; surveyor, farmer

Photo by James Lee

“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but we have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”

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

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”

— Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882)
English naturalist, geologist, and biologist

Photo by Carolyn Christine

“Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.”

— Amelia Earhart (1897 – 1937 disappeared)
American aviation pioneer

Photo by Precheur Martinique

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”

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

“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”

— Andre Maurois (1885 – 1967)
French author

A dear friend sent me the attached video. Lovely music and sweet sentiments about our birthday thinking. (Thank you, Bevy, dahhhhling!) Growing older is a blessing; growing up is optional.

Photo by Adam Nemeroff

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can see.”

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

We can choose to be rabid in our righteousness… or we can choose to be compassionate in our common humanity.

“‘History repeats itself’ and ‘History never repeats itself’ are about equally true… We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.”

— George Macaulary Trevelyan (1876 – 1962)
English historian

Photo from Library of Congress

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

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

Photo by Roberta Sant’Anna

“We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.”

— Stevie Wonder (1950 – )
American singer, songwriter, & musician

“It isn’t what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.”
— Unknown

My most sincere thanks and gratitude to each and every person in my life who has made a compassionate difference… even when I may have failed to tell you how precious you are.

Photo by Wesley Tingey

“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”

— Dwight Eisenhower 1890 – 1969)
American military officer &
34th President of the United States

“I shall derive great satisfaction from a cooperation with you in the pleasing though arduous task of insuring to our fellow citizens the blessings which they have a right to expect from a free, efficient, and equal government.”

— George Washington (1732 – 1799)
Commander of the Continental Army;
1st President of the United States (1789 – 1797);
Words from his first State of the Union address to Congress in Federal Hall in New York City on January 8, 1790

(Photo by Brigitte Werner)