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"Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life. Indeed, it is an excellent, joyful use of our life. Instead of getting better and better at avoiding, we can learn to accept the present moment as if we had invited it, and work with it instead of against it, making it our ally rather than our enemy."
"Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely"
"I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies."
"Little changes are the enemies of great changes."
"All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can only be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy."
"Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves."
"I fought with my twin, the enemy within."
"Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations."
"If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown."
"Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one."
"What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy."
"Know thy enemy and know thy self and you will win a hundred battles."
"Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend."
"The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself."
"The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy."
"We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports"
"With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy."
"Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy."
"Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them."
"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy."
