Quotemeal for Thursday, December 28, 2017

"The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be."

— Lillian Hellman

More Quotemeal

"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."

— Gaston Bachelard —

"Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind."

— Catherine of Siena —

"A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy,...."

— John Donne —

"There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man..."

— Blaise Pascal —