Quotemeal: Dec. 29th, 2021

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

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

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"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
— Thornton Wilder —
"Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works."
— Charles Kingsley —
"If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate."
— Nikka, age 6 —
"Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love."
— Reinhold Niebuhr —

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

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