Good Living 123

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

— William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
English playwright

“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.”

— John G. Riefenbaker (1895 – 1979)
13th Prime Minister of Canada (1957 – 1963)

“Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.”

— Epictetus (55 AD – 135 AD)
Greek Stoic Philosopher

Image by John Hain

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember… the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.”

– Zig Ziglar (1926 – 2012)
American author

“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.”

— Chinese proverb

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings.”

— From “Richard III” by William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
English playwright

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

— Joyce Meyer  (1943 – )
American author & speaker

“From the withered tree, a flower blooms.”

— Zen saying

Courage is contagious.  When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.

— Billy Graham (1918 – 2018)
American evangelist

“Great hopes make great people.”

— Thomas Fuller (1710 – 1790)
African slave and renowned mathematician

Photo by Julia Gadalina

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”

— Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014)
American poet & civil rights activist

“We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”

— Neal A. Maxwell (1926 – 2004)
American scholar & educator

“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”

— Robert Frost (1874 – 1963)
American poet

“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”

— M. Scott Peck (1936 – 2005)
American psychiatrist & author

For National Tax Day, here’s a look at some quotes regarding the income tax.

“They can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.”

— Al Capone aka “Scarface” (1899 – 1947)
American gangster & businessman

“A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right.”

— Anonymous

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”

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

“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.” 

— William Tecumseh Sherman (1820 – 1891)
Union General in the American Civil War

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.”

— Albert Schweitzer (1875 – 1965)
French theologian, philosopher, physician, and Nobel laureate

“If I can be somewhere with sunshine and have bare feet and a book, I’m happy.”

— KT Tunstall (1975 – )
Scottish singer-songwriter

“Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.”

B.C. Forbes (1880-1954)
Scottish-American journalist and author

“Do or do not. There is no try.”

— Yoda in “Star Wars”

“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.”

— Arnold H. Glasow (1905 – 1998)
American businessman & humorist

“There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.”

— John Muir (1838 – 1914)
Scottish-born American naturalist and author
from his book “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf,” published in 1916

Image by Gerd Altmann

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”

— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892 – 1973)
English author & philosopher

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”

— Unknown

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.”

— Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694)
Japanese poet of the Edo period

“Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach (1947 – )
American author

“I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”

— Harry S. Truman (1884 – 1972)
33rd President of the United States

“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” 

— Irish proverb