Chai Collection Quotes

#1. Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

Oscar Wilde

#2. I've always been a shy person.

Simon Baker

#3. We make our own destiny, not because we can see the road ahead, but because we cannot see the road ahead. It is the road, the motion, the forward movement, that takes us to ourselves.

Chloe Thurlow

#4. If someone else was delivering your lines, would you like them? If someone else was wearing your attitude, would you be impressed?

N.D. Wilson

#5. Taste and see that the LORD is good," says the psalmist (Ps 34:8). To "taste" is, as we say, to "try" a mouthful of something, with a view to appreciating its flavor. A dish may look good, and be well recommended by the cook, but we do not know its real quality till we have tasted it.

J.I. Packer

#6. Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.

Sylvia Earle

#7. The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.

Adam Gopnik