"Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when you know-you really know-that the emptinessis as much as inside you as outside you.For it falls out,that what we have we prize not to the worth whiles we enjoy it;but being lacked and lost,why,then we rack the value,then we find the virtue that possesion would not show us while it was ours.That's when I knew for the first time that I really did love my sister."

-- Gary D. Schmidt

#Fall Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.”
“For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.”
“Democracy is like three oxen pulling a plough. The oxen are the independent powers, but you have to walk in the same direction; otherwise, you cannot plough and that is what was happening in Colombia. One ox was walking in one direction, the other in another direction, so the democracy was not working.”

Source : "Santos: 'Colombia can play a role . . . that coincides with the U.S. interest'". Interview with Juan Forero, www.washingtonpost.com. December 26, 2010.
“Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.”
“There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.”
“A man who has blown all his options canâ€™t afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he canâ€™t afford to admit â€” no matter how often heâ€™s reminded of it â€” that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alleyâ€¦”
“Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer, dead at 53. Over Barcelona today, the famed reindeer was hit by a flock of seagulls and a 747. Eyewitnesses report, that the reindeer in Spain was hit mainly by the plane.”
“Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.”

Source : FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 30, 2012

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