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Quotes by Soldier

"When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience."

"Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well."

"Look well into thyself, there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

"We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile."

"At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social media is a huge step into bringing peace into our world."

"Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the best, and then reflect on how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them."

"Your breakthrough is on the way. Don't be discouraged if things are not working out right now. God is working it all out behind the scenes. It may not come when you want, but trust that it will be right on time, because our God is an on time God."

"The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours."

"The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses and people who accept truth soar."

"I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'."

"If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't."

"Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?"

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

"If you never try, you'll never know. You are what you manifest."

"Stay positive. Sometimes you don't even realize you're blocking your own blessings by thinking negatively and holding on to the past. Learn to let go."

"There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places."


"Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated."

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

"Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves."

"That all is as thinking makes it so " and you control your thinking. So remove your judgements whenever you wish and then there is calm - as the sailor rounding the cape finds smooth water and the welcome of a waveless bay."

"You become what you digest into your spirit. Whatever you think about, focus on, read about, talk about, you're going to attract more of into your life. Make sure they're all positive."


"In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning."

"Strive to be a person of action, good deeds and a willing vessel of hope."

"A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others."
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