Quotes of Smedley Butler

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War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

- Smedley Butler

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“ One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ”

- Sophocles

“ In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ If we open ourselves up to our feelings, our intuition, and our spiritual centers, we become much closer to the mystery of the Universe. ”

- Patricia Lynn

“ May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love. ”

- Thomas S. Monson

“ Gratitude is not love. Don’t mix the two because they are not the same. ”

- Frank Matobo

“ Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. ”

- Richard Carlson

“ ?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ”

- Voltaire

“ Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that’s what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep going. ”

- Practical Magic

“ Reading is life, Reading is knowledge, Reading Is Everything. ”

- Ezra Heft

“ I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Be supportive of others the way you would want them to be supportive of you. ”

- Ken Poirot

“ If you sow kindness, you will reap love. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ A life lived in love will never be dull. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever. ”

- John Bytheway

“ So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours] ”

- Taylor Swift

“ If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ”

- Confucius

“ That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ One chooses who they decide to love but never determines who will love them back. The woman’s first two considerations are respect and financial security which centers on the core of personality traits; a man reveres persona of physical and sexuality; these two impostors have little relevance of character. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ And these aches in my heart create poetry! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ Dream so big you get uncomfortable telling smallminded people. ”

- Praharsh Prasoon

“ True love is taking the risk that it won’t be a happily. ever. after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, “I’m not afraid to believe in you.” ”

- Cara Lockwood

“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ”

- Jodi Picoult

“ With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun. ”

- Unknown