Donald Grace

“There are things that are too big for us humans :
Pain,loneliness,and death, but also beauty, publicity and happiness. For them we created religion. What happens when we lose it? Those things are still too big for us. What is left for us is the poetry of the individual life.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“it is a terrible fact, but it is a fact, that few people have the imagination or the moral sensitivity to get very excited about actions which they don't participate in themselves.... and hence about which they feel no personal responsibility”
― Dwight Macdonald, Politics Past

“The noblest kind retribution is to become not like your enemy,”
― Marcus Aurelius, Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle

“Later, when we no longer there, we find those streets are very dear to us, we miss the roofs, Windows, and doors, that the walls are essential to us, that trees are beloved, that every day we did enter those houses we never entered, and we have left something of our affections, our life and heart on those paving stones.”
― Victor Hugo, The Complete Novels: Enriched edition. Les Misérables, Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Hans of Iceland, Last Day of a Condemned Man, Man Who Laughs, Ninety-Three, A Fight with a Cannon…