Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.
October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.
You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.
It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.
The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand.
Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.
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