Terracitas Quotes & Sayings

It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time. — Theodore Roosevelt

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. — Rainer Maria Rilke

When the future cost of doing nothing is the same as the current cost, postpone the decision. Make the decision only when you must with the information you have at that time. — Sandi Metz

PRIOR: Why does everyone here play cards?
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RABBI CHEMELWITZ: Cards is strategy but mostly a game of chance. In Heaven, everything is known. To the Great Questions are lying about here like yesterday's newspaper all the answers. So from what comes the pleasures of Paradise? Indeterminacy! Because mister, with the Angels, may their names be always worshipped and adored, it's all gloom and doom and give up already. But still is there Accident, in this pack of playing cards, still is there the Unknown, the Future. You understand me? It ain't all so much mechanical as they think. — Tony Kushner

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his? — Robert G. Ingersoll

How, I asked, could I have gone my whole life not knowing about my mother? How could I have not known what Keith knew when he saw our house? "It's your mom," Helder said. "Because it's Mom." He sounded firm and knowing and clear. "When a child has an alcoholic father, he sees him drink all day long but he doesn't have a label, a concept. You just know that at night, when the tires make a certain sound in the driveway and the doors slam a certain way, with a certain sound, you just know you need to hide. — Heather Sellers