"On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens."

-- Oliver Cromwell

#Soldier Quotes #Becoming Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.”
“When you're chewing on life's gristle Don't grumble, give a whistle And this'll help things turn out for the best... And...always look on the bright side of life... Always look on the light side of life.”
“Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.”

Source : FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 04, 2011
“I don't really need new stuff anyway. I like to make big stuff, and it's too expensive to travel with. So I have my refined set that works well, and I'm pretty much set with that.”
“There's such a fine line between defeat and losing.”
“Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.”
“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”
“[W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of the world, which Our Lord so assiduously avoided and so often recommends us to shun, and that you labor in earnest to acquire true and solid virtues.”

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