"A thankful heart is the greatest virtue."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Heart Quotes #Heartache Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.”
“Men are seldom born brave but they acquire courage through training and discipline - a handful of men inured to war proceed to certain victory; while on the contrary numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.”
“In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.”
“You can't deny your limitations.”
“Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while”
“This situation, where men rally to the defense of a doctrine they are unable to define scientifically, much less demonstrate with scientific rigor, attempting to maintain its credit with the public by the suppression of criticism and the elimination of difficulties, is abnormal and undesirable in science.”
“[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .”

Source : Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.35, Macmillan
“We're young men; we're not ready to die.”

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