“But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future.
—Charlie”
Susan Beth Pfeffer (1948) American writer
Source: This World We Live In
“And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of out way to God, in supreme delight in Him who is the gladness of our joy, the secret of tranquillity will be ours.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 448.
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Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Le calme et le silence nécessaires au savant ont je ne sais quoi de doux, d'enivrant comme l'amour. L'exercice de la pensée, la recherche des idées, les contemplations tranquilles de la science nous prodiguent d'ineffables délices, indescriptibles comme tout ce qui participe de l'intelligence, dont les phénomènes sont invisibles à nos sens extérieurs.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part II: A Woman Without a Heart
“Our work is the love of God. Our satisfaction lies in submission to the Divine Embrace”
John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) Flemish mystic
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James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 10).
Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Priesthood Session of Jordan Utah South Regional Conference, March 1, 1997.
Oswald Chambers book My Utmost for His Highest
My Utmost for His Highest (1956). Section "December 31".
“His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.”
Jorge Luis Borges book Other Inquisitions
"Kafka and His Precursors" ["Kafka y sus precursores"], as translated in Labyrinths (1964)
Variant translation: The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
Other Inquisitions (1952)
Context: In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
