In my latest Epoch Times column I say the casual and inconsistent way governments keep shutting down our lives betrays their conceited conviction that we weren’t doing anything important anyway.
“Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.”
Robert Louis Stevenson quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“The man who said, ‘Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed,’ put the eulogy quite inadequately and even falsely. The truth is, ‘Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.’”
G.K. Chesterton discussing George Bernard Shaw in Heretics, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #1 (Sept. 2001)
“Every man is a d*** fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit.”
Elbert Hubbard, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
Thomas Carlyle, quoted by Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (he calls them “The twenty-one words that this young medical student read in 1871 helped him to become the most famous physician of his generation.... His name was Sir William Osier.”
“Of those who say nothing, few are silent.”
Thomas Neill quoted on https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/525050-of-those-who-say-nothing-few-are-silent
“in a world without God, there is not room enough for a man.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Joyce Little in an interview in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 2 #7 (June 1999)
“Don’t hate yourself in the morning – sleep till noon.”
Ashley Elliott quoted as the “Smile” (a feature contributed by readers, I believe) in Globe & Mail June 29, 2001