"My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of historyâ€”for never has there been so little war in a war."

-- Seth Grahame-Smith

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #Blood Quotes

“In the wake of my talk with Earl, we had come to a mutual understanding about Lena, the only kind guys ever come to. Meaning, I hadnâ€™t brought it up, and they hadnâ€™t brought it up, and between us, we somehow all agreed to go on like this indefinitely. Donâ€™t ask, donâ€™t tell.”
“All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.”
“He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that the grim reality of impending death can be talked away by trying to invest in the present reality of life. I didnâ€™t believe that at the time, but now I do. By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.”
“Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences,”
“As a rule, ladies of the Royal Family wear light coloured clothes because such colours are more discernible against a great crowd.”
“...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord had pointed me in the direction of spiritual activity...And then it was disclosed to me that I could do both spiritual and musical work. So for five years I executed that contract, and when it was finished, after I made the album Transfiguration, I didn't make another album until twenty-six years later. This new album, Translinear Light, came out of the pleading and constant appealing from my son Ravi Coltrane: 'Ma, please make a CD.' So I eventually agreed.”
“I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.”
“...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.”

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