"Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself."

-- Bill McKibben

#Running Quotes #Advent Quotes #Footsteps Quotes

“In logic, there are no morals.”

Source : Rudolf Carnap (2014). “Logical Syntax of Language”, p.52, Routledge
“Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.”
“When I stopped wanting my New Year's Eve to be perfect, to bring in the New Year right, is when it started working out right. When I was young, I was always looking for the best party to be at, to ring in the New Year, and I always ended up in the car going, "Happy New Year."”
“The sweetest things in life to you were just loaned, so how can you lose what you've never owned.”
“The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion.”
“What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.”
“The worst men often give the best advice.”
“When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.”

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