#battle

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me. ↗

— August Strindberg

#constantly #cruel #find #hard #i

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color. ↗

— Major Taylor

#always #battle #because #color #dreadful

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places. ↗

— Alfred M. Gray

#battlefields #crowded #lonely #places #such

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet. ↗

— Damon Runyon

#battle #bet #nor #race #strong

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

#before #every #fight #fighting #fits

You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet.” (Hadrian) ↗

— Michael J. Sullivan

#anger

We're supposed to strive for harmony, and that's what the art of tea is supposed to accomplish... but harmony is very, very difficult to achieve in this country. Tea ceremony is powerless. But it's also not such a bad thing either. You should enjoy it while you can. ↗

— Koushun Takami

#government #harmony #tea-ceremony #art

A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight ↗

— Robert Jordan

#mat #red-hand #beauty

Knights die in battle,” Catelyn reminded her. Brienne looked at her with those blue and beautiful eyes. “As ladies die in childbed. No one sings songs about them. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#brienne #childbed #knights #ladies #beauty

In the case of our fair maiden, we have overlooked two very crucial aspects to that myth. On the one hand, none of us ever really believed the sorcerer was real. We thought we could have the maiden without a fight. Honestly, most of us guys thought our biggest battle was asking her out. And second, we have not understood the tower and its relationship to her wound; the damsel is in distress. If masculinity has come under assault, femininity has been brutalized. Eve is the crown of creation, remember? She embodies the exquisite beauty and the exotic mystery of God in a way that nothing else in all creation even comes close to. And so she is the special target of the Evil One; he turns his most vicious malice against her. If he can destroy her or keep her captive, he can ruin the story. ↗

— John Eldredge

#femininity #heart #man #masculinity #romance