#line

If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#discipline #leadership #relationship #art

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#happiness #suffering #art

I wish I could say we all lived happily ever after. I can't. But I can say we lived. Our love for Nate lives, and he's left us this piece of himself in his art; it was his gift to us. We know him through his art, and I can take comfort in that. I guess the thing about high school is, it's the moment when you start to cross from a being a kid to being an adult, and this journey to know yourself begins. Nate's journey ended to early, and I thought I had to run away to some far-off land to start mine. But, for now, it seems to me that I have enough to explore right here. There's a whole continent to discover in myself, and I know that it's love - love for my parents, my friends, my brother, and my art - that will guide me. Love will be my map. ↗

— Lisa Ann Sandell

#cora #experiences #fondness #friendship #guidance

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50) ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#garden-of-eden #god #holiness #art

You're great but you're not there when I go to bed at night or get up in the morning. You don't make me a cup of tea after a hard day at work, or rub my back in the bath. I'm sick of being lonely. Is that so wrong?  ↗

— Eleanor Prescott

#relationships #art

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#opening-lines #life

Fine. You don’t want to be good enough for me, then you will never be. I deserve someone who wants to be what I need. ↗

— Abbi Glines

#attitude #inspiration #just-for-now #love #attitude

The most powerful control we can ever attain, is to be in control of ourselves. ↗

— Chris Page

#discipline #inspirational #attitude

Wasted strokes, like missed deadlines, are preventable and costly. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#on-time #work #attitude

That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#loneliness #anger