You can overcome the things that are done to you, but you cannot escape the things that you have done.
Here is the truth: It matters, what you do at war. It matters more than you ever want to know. Because countries, like people, have collective consciences and memories and souls, and the violence we deliver in the name of our nation is pooled like sickly tar at the bottom of who we are. The soldiers who don't die for us come home again. They bring with them the killers they became on our national behalf, and sit with their polluted memories and broken emotions in our homes and schools and temples. We may wish it were not so, but action amounts to identity. We become what we do.You can tell yourself all the stories you want, but you can't leave your actions over there. You can't build a wall and expect to live on the other side of memory. All of the poison seeps back into our soil.
Tag: experience war war-on-terror
I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.
Lord DunsanyTag: age experience youth getting-older
If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately.
Edward Hallett CarrTag: life experience
Life was never intended to consist of a glut of luxury, be an easy course, or filled only with success. There are those games which we lose, those races in which we finish last, and those promotions which never come. Such experiences provide an opportunity for us to show our determination and to rise above disappointment.
Thomas S. MonsonTag: experience determination rising-above-disappointment
Pains are not to be relieved
Sorrows are not to fade away
a slight change in the vision
may bring a new experience
Tag: experience pain vision change sorrow oceans-of-illusion silentaria what-s-real
Experience teaches is such a lovely saying. However, when people try not to make the mistakes of what history and experience has taught, they are criticized for it. They are told that because they have not experienced it, they cannot appreciate it, and thus never know it. However, at the same time, people want you to learn from past mistakes and past experiences, in order to make a better choice for yourself. So let me ask you, which is the hypocrite? Is it history or is it today?
Lionel SuggsTag: experience history hypocrisy
Wisdom isn't built on experience; it's built on reason...
Lionel SuggsTag: wisdom experience
When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply understand the choices that were taken, the roads that were walked, and that there are no guarantees to an unseen future.
Lionel SuggsTag: experience miracles uncertainty
Do not give hope where there is none.
Do not turn away hope where there is seldom some.
Tag: wisdom life success happiness experience learning
Love forever, love is free
Rosen TopuzovTag: wisdom life success happiness experience learning
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