truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 16 March 2007 8:58 am

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
Simone de Beauvoir

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 16 March 2007 8:59 am

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Simone de Beauvoir

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 16 March 2007 9:06 am

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 16 March 2007 9:13 am

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
Saul Bellow

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 16 March 2007 9:18 am

The fragility of life makes it yet more precious - it’s finitude makes the gift that awaits us yet more unfathomable.
Fr Stephen Freeman

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Fri 16 March 2007 9:19 am

It is strange, and probably a modern thing, that we are surprised by just how fragile and short life is. We live a very protected existence in most reaches of our culture. Most people that I know have never seen anyone actually die, nor have they seen anyone actually get born. The two things we must all do, and most people have never witnessed either. That is strange.
Fr Stephen Freeman

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Sat 17 March 2007 8:30 pm

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Helen Keller