Soldier Returning Home Quotes

#1. Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart
the darkness that is always with us.

Larry Heinemann

#2. We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

Murray Kempton

#3. Often religious education teaches us to conform and creates a psychological prison which is difficult to escape.

Debasish Mridha

#4. There is a lump of desolation beneath the bony dip at my throat. It is no bigger than a coin, this spot, a peculiarly small place to hold such a feeling. I try to shove it to some deeper region, but there it sticks, a fragile skin-thickness from the outside world.

Franny Billingsley

#5. Honest but gentle communication from the beginning is key.

Cheryl Barker

#6. Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire. Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience

Albert Camus

#7. I'm a songwriter. So I'm OK. But when I wrote "Stand By Me" as a song and to know that the song will probably be here for hundred and hundreds of years to come, it's great, you know. And it was just simple lyrics.

Ben E. King

#8. The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

Aristotle.