"I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did-- guys who were killed."

-- Audie Murphy

#Guy Quotes #Soldier Quotes #Should Quotes

“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”
“It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd”
“In the heart or every caregiver is a knowing that we are all connected. As I do for you, I do for me.”
“Building relationships is the key for being happy as a coach. Players must want to play for you. If they are comfortable with you, they will work hard for you.”
“All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.”
“There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between flowers of equal loveliness. ... The true anthologist has the greatest difficulty in finishing his book. There is always just one more, a new, delicious discovery.”
“Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.”
“In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.”

Source : Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.161, Open Road Media

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