Quotations
We do not necessarily agree with all of these quotations from others, but we find them insightful, or thought-provoking, or humorous. Some of these quotations are from our own TerraX articles. In such a case, we have provided a link to the article in which the quotation appeared.
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“Almost anything you do will seem insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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“What in your life is calling you? When all the noise is silenced, the meetings adjourned, the lists laid aside, and the wild iris blooms by itself in the dark forest, what still pulls on your soul?”
The Box: Remembering the Gift
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“In the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power.”
2 Timothy 3:1-5 (NAS)
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“Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen.”
Doc Sane (I can find no information on “Doc Sane.” If you know who he is, please tell us!).
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“The busier you are, the more important it becomes to do things that can’t be rushed.”
Arts and crafts teacher in a radio interview
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“Nothing is so commonplace as the wish to be remarkable.”
Oliver Wendall Holmes (also attributed to Shakespeare)
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“I’d rather be lucky than good.”
Lefty Gomez (N.Y. Yankees pitcher, 1930-1943; Baseball Hall of Fame, 1972)
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“Blogging is Revenge of the Nerds.”
Virginia Postrel
