"The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy."

-- George Hodges (theologian)

#Happiness Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Steps Quotes

“When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.”

Source : "Schlock Mercenary". Webcomic by Howard Tayler, 2003-2006.
“To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself....”
“When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.”
“London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high.”
“And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we're making progress.”

Source : "'Matterhorn' Author On What It's Like 'To Go To War'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. August 30, 2011.
“Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.”
“Earth shall be fair, and all her folk be one!”
“Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are looking for a light in the darkness of their lives, a Good Samaritan who will stop and bandage a bruised heart or ego.”

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