Quotemeal for Friday, October 31, 1958

"Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven."

— Charles Williams

More Quotemeal

"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass!"

— Scott Nicholson —

"The devil does not sleep, nor is the flesh yet dead; therefore, you must never cease your preparation for battle, because on the right and the left are enemies...."

— Thomas à Kempis —

"In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once,..."

— Adrei Bitov —