Good Living 123

“Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.”

— Plautus (c254 BC – 184 BC)
Roman playwright

“A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.” 

— Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881)
Scottish historian and essayist

“Whenever ‘A’ attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon ‘B’, ‘A’ is most likely a scoundrel.”

— H.L. Mencken (1880 – 1956)
American journalist, editor, and cultural critic

“Hope is the best part of our riches.”

— Christian Nevell Bovee (1820 – 1904)
American epigrammatic writer

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

— Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)
French novelist & literary critic

Photo by Alonso Reyes

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

Photo by Dan Fador

“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

Photo by Randy Jacob

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

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