sheehan Quotes

“Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.”

“Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.”

“World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.”

“Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.”

“We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.”

“We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.”

“Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.”

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”