"To build up a future, you have to know the past."

-- Otto Frank

“It is true that God's power triumphs over everything, but humble and suffering prayer prevails over God Himself.”
“The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.”
“If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.”

Source : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, D. M. Thomas (2006). “Poems”, Knopf Publishing Group
“Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.”
“A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.”
“I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?'”
“Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more”
“Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.”

Source : Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.104, Random House

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