Anton Myrer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?
It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.
Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.
Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.
Generosity won't happen unless you make it a priority. The best way to make giving a priority is to make it the very first check you write every month. Before the mortgage. Before groceries or clothing. Before saving. Whatever the amount, do it first.
Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
There is a self-love solution for every challenge.

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