"I believe that one can't command sitting on one's ***** in the rear.One has to up among the forward brigade commanders, even as far as battalion commanders, especially if one is fighting a defensive action. One simply has to know what is going on."

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Source : "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 182), 1985.

Christopher Vokes

#Believe Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Sitting Quotes

“Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels of wisdom and faith which are scattered so plentifully along its paths; and lacking which no soul can come again from beyond the grave to gather.”
“Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.”

Source : FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Apr 28, 2014
“The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment.”
“Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice."Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're... stubbon and hard to move”
“The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.”
“It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.”
“Think of how much we stress about living up to our "potential," and how it creates anxiety and terror in people; in short, stops them from living their life as fully as they might out of fear and self-loathing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
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