Sunday, December 31, 2017

Gifts and Appreciation

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well...

Thou hast not given us a heart that we may hate one another, nor hands that we may strangle one another, but that we may help each other to bear the burden of a wearisome and transitory life...

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

-- François-Marie Arouet (1694 – 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church and Christianity as a whole, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and separation of church and state.

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