Edith Schaeffer Quotes
What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to affect the next generation, and the next generation, and the next. Choice never affects just one person alone. It goes on and on and the effect goes out into geography and history. You are part of history and your choices become part of history.
Quotes to Explore
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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My inspiration is love and history.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.
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But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
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I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.
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I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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Veterans are my life's work. From the day my buddies saved my life in Iraq, I've woken up every single day dedicated to taking care of veterans and doing my best for veterans.
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Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.
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When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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Fish banks are areas we set aside without fishing, reserves where we allow marine life to come back.
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Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.
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If we go on as we are, we are protecting the mind of the American public from any real contact with the menacing world that squeezes in upon us. We are engaged in a great experiment to discover whether a free public opinion can devise and direct methods of managing the affairs of the nation. We may fail. But we are handicapping ourselves needlessly.
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I think there's something important in going against the grain and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.
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What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to affect the next generation, and the next generation, and the next. Choice never affects just one person alone. It goes on and on and the effect goes out into geography and history. You are part of history and your choices become part of history.
