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“We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.”

“A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's activities, maintaining the life of our bodies; shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion, uniting people deeply.”

People Moments Body Joy Simple Our Lives Activity Eating Fundamentals Occasions Meals Communion Maintaining Intersections Uniting

Author:Elise M. Boulding

“The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.”

Our Lives Taste Occasions Instability Irregularity

Book:Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

“The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.”

Should Mind Courses Opportunity Pleasure Greater Our Lives Share Ought Drinking Refuse Esteem Occasions Our Time Dedicated

Book:Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

“We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.”

Doe Stills Suffering Interest Grief Our Lives Foundation Occasions Uncommon

Book:In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's

Source: In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's