Quotemeal: Sep. 16th, 1960

Friday, September 16, 1960

"Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all."
— Leo Tolstoy

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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
— Cicero —
"What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him."
— Meister Eckhart —
"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson —
"Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a simple movement of heart toward God will renew our powers. Whatever he may demand of us, he will give us..."
— François Fénelon —

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Illustration of Leo Tolstoy — "Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all."

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