Extract the Precious from the Worthless

“The great danger of our age is to be lulled to sleep by the anesthesia of abundance. To have so much yet mean so little. To move so fast that we have no time to savor life’s sweet and simple pleasures. To let things temporal crowd out things eternal. To be too busy for those we love so that someday we are gone, or they are, before we acquire the good sense to slow down and extract the precious from the worthless.” – Steve Forbes quoted in My America: What My Country Means to Me