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I can't tell you what's in all of God's plans, but I do know part of them. He empowers you with reason and will. Those are your strengths. That's what gives you the chance to be great in his sight. He gave you a mind and codes to live by so you could be in charge of your own actions. -- Dan Groat
Hope is a carrot tied to the stick of tomorrow. -- Dan Groat
Evil stinks and it doesn't disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed. -- Dan Groat
We learn to love when we're young. If we learn hating better, it has to go somewhere. We can hate ourselves or we can hate somebody else. Most people would rather hate somebody else. -- Dan Groat
If the forest has a day of fire and the heat of the flames does not consume a special tree, it will still be changed; charred, but still standing. -- Dan Groat
Our bird of hope was being denied the altitude it sought, just free enough to fly dangerously close to the reality of the treetops. -- Dan Groat
It's a funny thing, one day you're living and the next day you're not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don't even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I'd rather be surprised. -- Dan Groat
It made him wonder if all things taken from their home too soon lost some of their bloom. -- Dan Groat
You can be spiritual all by yourself. Everybody has a soul. But to be religious, it seems like you need other people, and then sometimes it becomes more about the people than the soul. -- Dan Groat
Now, it's time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that's gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin' a lie to his son from his death bed. What's the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling? -- Dan Groat
He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men. -- Dan Groat
How do we keep convincing young people to die in fights they didn't start for reasons we're too devious to tell the truth about? It's way too easy for governments to spend other people's blood. Maybe only the sons and daughters of those who declare the wars should be allowed to fight and die. -- Dan Groat
Memories with laughter are the best ones to keep. -- Dan Groat
Men who have been in war have a different attitude about being wronged. -- Dan Groat
Peace, a commodity purchased with friendship and safety and anything comfortable and all things familiar; peace that was a pleasant melody playing through the moments of their day; a chord striking only the notes of security and agreement and understanding and order. -- Dan Groat
On this morning his first waking moments were filled with the audible lamenting breath of having survived another winter night on the streets of St. Louis, those onerous recurring sighs that had become his respiration. -- Dan Groat
As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living. -- Dan Groat
This country should treat good people better than they do. -- Dan Groat
Death was an old acquaintance. They had met before. They were not friends. Not enemies, either. -- Dan Groat
What a wonderful sadness to miss the one you have loved forever, it seems, and know that she is waiting at home. -- Dan Groat
If all you do is think about what you need, you're no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you've got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger. -- Dan Groat
Does the plain, simple beauty of life get buried under society's so-called required daily activities or is that just true of me? No, I know I'm not alone in that feeling. We all get caught up in the making and spending of money. I know it's not just me. -- Dan Groat
A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature's demolition team comes in. -- Dan Groat
I don't have to save them all, just a few, or one, and then that one has to go out and save another one until this half-dead world begins to climb out of the grave it's standing in waiting for someone to throw dirt on it. -- Dan Groat
The true soldier knows nothing but war, and the true soldier, for lack of an enemy, attacks himself. -- Dan Groat
It seems to me that smart people seem to know things and wise people know how to use what they know. Smart is a big help to a man; wise is a big help to lots of men. -- Dan Groat
Time does not heal, but it can liberate. A race run well can never be lost. -- Dan Groat
Fear was like a tick to them. They knew there were times when it was going to crawl on them, but they sure didn't want it embedded in their skin and sucking their blood. -- Dan Groat
In this country our principles should not be silent. -- Dan Groat
We who are dreamers and doers want only the chance to dream and do, to have an idea and to try to carry it out without interference. -- Dan Groat
Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power. -- Dan Groat
The bones of the oak tree that had stood by the spring branch during my youth were scattered about the ground, pieces of the skeleton of a majestic life that had passed while I was off growing up and old. -- Dan Groat
My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child. -- Dan Groat
I wonder how long it takes for these people we elect to forget who they work for? -- Dan Groat
The world has a way of dragging down our mood. -- Dan Groat
It must be great to spend time in a spot and if you walk away, it's so much better than before because of something you did. -- Dan Groat
I had always been a boy in this place, and many of the trees and rocks and streams had been old men when I knew them. Some had died. All had changed. I knew that. I had changed the most. -- Dan Groat
It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others. -- Dan Groat
Winning and losing was suddenly elevated to be about things that had no score and no teams and no uniforms; just one player at a time dealing with his life, his own struggle, his own triumph and torment. -- Dan Groat
The world bein' so small ain't always a good thing for those of us who ain't searchin' for new and different stuff. -- Dan Groat
Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pages seldom disappointed him and they never died. -- Dan Groat
Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender. -- Dan Groat
Everything will be fine. I've heard that my whole life. Everything will be fine. That's baloney. -- Dan Groat
The only way the meek will ever inherit the earth is when they get ground into it by the heel of someone else's boot. -- Dan Groat
I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on. -- Dan Groat
I'm not lookin' to be anybody's keeper. What I say and do is meant to protect me. If it works for somebody else, that's okay, but I don't want people depending on me to save them. -- Dan Groat
Gifford Ulrich didn't know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn't sleep in alleys. -- Dan Groat
Don't ever use a shovel to swat a fly. -- Dan Groat
There is no end to the hatred in men, but there is an end to the hatred in a man. If your hatred is just, and deeds will get you to the end of it, then go and do what must be done. -- Dan Groat
I wish but to share your gifts as a young boy on his birthday would excitedly rip open his packages to the view of others. -- Dan Groat
They may not have enough of their own to take a stand, but they can do it if someone shows them how. -- Dan Groat
As I have aged, I've been lucky never to reach old. Old is always at least five or ten years beyond my current calendar stage. -- Dan Groat
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"Responsibility is definitely not something you feel; it is something you wear."
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Just make sure the day doesn't pass without sayin' what's in your heart. Sometimes you pass up those chances and they're gone forever. -- Dan Groat
Fear was the hand of the devil holding a scalding hot branding iron and touching your brain and your stomach and yelling at you to run with leaden feet. -- Dan Groat
Time is not tinder for any flame. It will not gather a spark; it will not smolder. It will not change. -- Dan Groat
Porches could be cleaned with a broom in a few minutes, but the soul could not be swept. It had to be shaken. And shaking the loess from a soul took a lifetime and more strength than most people had. -- Dan Groat
The power of our country relies on the character that comes out of each of our homes. -- Dan Groat
Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don't save yourself, they will die. -- Dan Groat
There are struggles you cannot win, but a man can meet his own heart if value is found in loss. Give yourself permission to cry. -- Dan Groat
The answers are in you, not around you. -- Dan Groat
Back home. What wonderful words. What a wonderful place. -- Dan Groat
Evil won't leave you alone until you take a stand or until you're dead. -- Dan Groat
They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease. -- Dan Groat
I wonder if God hears prayers if the only time you make them is when you're in trouble. -- Dan Groat
Those who show no loyalty give up the right to expect any. -- Dan Groat
If you decide to take somebody on, don't look behind you, because there won't be anybody there. You'll be all alone. -- Dan Groat
There ain't nothin' you can say about war that ain't personal. It's all personal. -- Dan Groat
My name Quan. Quan Nguyen. This Kim-Ly, wife. We next door. Do nails. We with Mr. Blaylock. He fight, we fight. We come here from Viet Nam. This good country, but sometimes, good people in good country have to fight. -- Dan Groat
What kind of country has this become? Decent people can't do anything without being watched. -- Dan Groat
A government that thinks it can remedy personal failure is an intrusion in everybody's life. No law is going to cure a human's lack of physical or mental effectiveness. I'd rather see democracy promote strength than reward weakness. -- Dan Groat
He had no ability to give up. It wasn't that he didn't want to quit, he couldn't. It wasn't in him. It never had been. -- Dan Groat
I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisting it. If it cannot be overcome, then grief has beaten you, and you are right to say so. -- Dan Groat
Surviving is about need. Living is about want. -- Dan Groat
Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don't. -- Dan Groat
We are born among relatives. Family is defined by loyalty. -- Dan Groat
We shook hands the way men do when they're trying to say something more than goodbye. -- Dan Groat
One of the worst things I've learned about getting older is that there seems to be more change that you don't like than there was when you were younger and you can't do nothin' about it. -- Dan Groat
True genius is a complete stranger to most, a momentary acquaintance to others, a lasting friend to few. -- Dan Groat
Governments have absolutely no interest in self-reliance. It defeats one of the purposes for their existence. They encourage and thrive on dependency. The more of it they sell, the more necessary they are, and the more power and money they need. -- Dan Groat
We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want. -- Dan Groat
The gear teeth of his mind, the cogs of the brain's machinery that propelled his thoughts, were grinding to a halt, too long forced to fight against the friction of agony without the aid of hope, the lubricant for the soul. -- Dan Groat
There is a silent deference for one another, a distance that is kept, and lines that aren't crossed, but in their sharing, they each try to pay tribute to the bond in their own way. As often as possible, they open up a little and give what they can. -- Dan Groat
Not interested in scarin' anybody, but people with good sense are afraid of a man with nothin' to lose. -- Dan Groat
Saying it ain't fair, over and over again while you stand in front of a wrecking ball is kinda senseless, I think. -- Dan Groat
When you're anonymous, other opinions shrink next to the sounds in your own head. -- Dan Groat
Giants bleed like everybody else. -- Dan Groat
Hope was always hard to find in the darkness. -- Dan Groat
The weak thrive on indulgence. -- Dan Groat
Music is the sound of unspoken thoughts. -- Dan Groat
People don't die so the universe can gauge your reaction. They die because life is finite. -- Dan Groat
Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans. -- Dan Groat
I need to work. It's the one time my thoughts will cooperate with me. -- Dan Groat
We lose keys and we find keys and we get new keys. We just have to find the ones that unlock the right doors. Sometimes, we have keys, but we don't know what door they fit. That can be the hardest part, putting the right key in the right door. -- Dan Groat
Responsibility is definitely not something you feel; it is something you wear. -- Dan Groat
Everybody dies. It's no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning. -- Dan Groat
Sometimes, you need to spit stuff out in words to get it better arranged in your head. I figure if you never talk about it, it just picks its own spot and lays there and festers. -- Dan Groat
Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes. -- Dan Groat
Being tough today might cause you to be weak in the future. -- Dan Groat
He knew most men only heard what they wanted to hear, and he had no desire to be like most men. -- Dan Groat