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“If someone who loves you gives you a beautiful and valuable gift, how do you handle it? To treat it with contempt is to treat the giver with contempt. If you value it, you admire it, look after it; you do not disdain it; you respect it and are grateful. The damage to our planet stems from the loss of this awareness of gratitude.”
― Pope Francis, Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future

“the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“But in the end, it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“The indignation of the isolated conscience begins in unreality, passes through Manichaean fantasies that divide the world into good and bad (with themselves always on the good side), and ends in different kinds of violence: verbal, physical, and so on.”
― Pope Francis, Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future