Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.
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Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's different. Here every man is potentially a zero. If you become something or somebody it is an accident, a miracle.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.