"Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday."

-- Joan D. Chittister

#Yesterday Quotes #Vision Quotes #Tomorrow Quotes

“Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.”
“In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches if it is not to feel under a curse.”
“An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.”
“Managers’ typical response to my argument about free time is, ‘That’s all well and good, but there are things I have to do.’ Yet we waste so much time in unproductive activity—it takes an enormous effort on the part of the leader to keep free time for the truly important things.”
“Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.”

Source : Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “The Visitor”, p.216, Hachette UK
“English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.”
“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
“Tell the children the truth.”

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