The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.
Marjory Stoneman DouglasRead
The hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself. One doesn't like to remember unpleasant details, but forgetting them makes one's life seem disorganized.
Interpretation
Acknowledging one's own truths can be difficult, yet essential for a well-ordered life.
This quote emphasizes the challenge of self-awareness and honesty. Acknowledging unpleasant truths about oneself can be uncomfortable, but facing these realities helps maintain clarity and organization in life, as suppressing them leads to confusion and disorder.
In practice
In a personal development seminar discussing the importance of self-reflection.
The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.
Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.
Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.
To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.
Conservation is now a dead word.
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.
I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons
When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
The way people look at me these days - that's the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who've attained a certain position are human.
Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group.
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