Quotes

One of the fondest memories of my Granddad Nelson was trading quotes regularly over email. Sadly I lost the email archive when I went on my mission, but it has continued to be an interest of mine. I hope you enjoy my collection of quotes. A bit of everything from religion to politics to leadership.

We will never regret being too kind. In God’s eyes, kindness is synonymous with greatness.

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say,
“I went through something really strange and awful, and it has altered me forever.”

Everybody has a testing environment. Some people are lucky enough to have a totally separate environment to run production in.

Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that's why life is hard.

I used to think I was introverted because I really liked being alone, but it turns out that I just like being at peace, and I am very extroverted around people who bring me peace.

remember that discipleship is not about doing things perfectly; it’s about doing things intentionally.

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to and the ones she doesn’t belong to. I am this and this and this, but definitely not that and that and that.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them… I destroy them. I make it impossible for them to ever hurt me again. I grind them and grind them until they don’t exist.

Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they’d leave me alone.

What matters most in learning is attitude. The attitude of the teacher.