Good Living 123

“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

“How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another.  There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature.  There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 – 1973)
36th President of the United States
(from his Inaugural Address, Jan 1965)

“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

“It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.”

— Gina Barreca (1957 – )
American academic & humorist

Image by Andreas Decker

“People never give up their liberties but under some delusion.” 

— Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Anglo-Irish statesman & philosopher

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”

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

“Why is it when we talk to God we’re praying, but when God talks to us, we’re schizophrenic?”

— Lily Tomlin (1939 – )
American actress & comedian