Quotemeal: Dec. 29th, 1949

Thursday, December 29, 1949

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

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"Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?"
— Martin Luther —
"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
— Thornton Wilder —
"Guilt is concerned with the past. Worry is concerned about the future. Contentment enjoys the present."
— Author Unknown —
"Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance."
— Alfred North Whitehead —

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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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