"I think I'm still just as conflicted about the war as I always was. On the one hand, I was a soldier carrying out his duty, following his allegiance to his country and to the mission at hand. But yet, there was always this unease plaguing me. "What are we doing here?" "Are we really fixing this country or are we doing more harm than good?" And the most pressing question: "How do we pull ourselves out of this quicksand?" I think I'm still there in that white space you mentioned, trying to get clarity for myself on what this war did to us as a nation."

Source : Source: therumpus.net

Dave Abrams

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Where Attention goes Energy flows; Where Intention goes Energy flows!”
“I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say anything else to those whom we instruct in divine things, but merely command them to believe. They accuse the apostles of ignorance, labelling them barbarians, because they do not have the subtlety of eloquence; and they say that the cult of martyrs is ridiculous, considering it completely absurd for the living to seek assistance from the dead.”
“People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for the failure, ascribing it to some characteristic they are helpless to change.”

Source : Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.147, Bantam
“Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.”
“Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.”
“Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me.”

Source : Source: articles.chicagotribune.com
“We all have our own battles to fight, and sometimes we have to go it alone. I'm stronger than you think, you'd be surprised.”

Source : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2014). “Now I'll Tell You Everything”, p.492, Simon and Schuster
“We can't control what other people do and how they treat us, but we can control our response to them.”

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