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  • #1
    There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling
    “There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #2
    Emilie Autumn
    “It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”
    Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

  • #3
    Charlotte Brontë
    “It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
    than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all
    connected with you.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #4
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “Patience is power.
    Patience is not an absence of action;
    rather it is "timing"
    it waits on the right time to act,
    for the right principles
    and in the right way.”
    Fulton J. Sheen

  • #5
    Joseph Conrad
    “No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don’t like work – no man does – but I like what is in the work, - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
    Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

  • #6
    Joseph Conrad
    “It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
    Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

  • #7
    Joseph Conrad
    “You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.”
    Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

  • #8
    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #9
    Sun Tzu
    “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #10
    Sun Tzu
    “The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #11
    Sun Tzu
    “Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.”
    Sun Tzu

  • #12
    Sun Tzu
    “When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.”
    sun tzu, The Art of War

  • #13
    Sun Tzu
    “The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #14
    Sun Tzu
    “The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.”
    Sun Tzu

  • #15
    Sun Tzu
    “He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight”
    Sun Tzu

  • #16
    Sun Tzu
    “Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm”
    Sun Tzu

  • #17
    Sun Tzu
    “who wishes to fight must first count the cost”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #18
    Sun Tzu
    “No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his
    own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.
    If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay
    where you are.
    Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded
    by content.
    But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again
    into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.”
    Sun Tzu

  • #19
    Sun Tzu
    “Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #20
    Sun Tzu
    “Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #21
    Sun Tzu
    “Be where your enemy is not.”
    Sun Tzu

  • #22
    Sun Tzu
    “Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #23
    Sun Tzu
    “Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #24
    Sun Tzu
    “Supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy.”
    Sun Tzu

  • #25
    Sun Tzu
    “The general who does not advance to seek glory, or does not withdraw to avoid punishment, but cares for only the people's security and promotes the people's interests, is the nation's treasure.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #26
    Sun Tzu
    “We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #27
    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #28
    Karl Lagerfeld
    “Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”
    Karl Lagerfeld

  • #29
    The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
    “The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.”
    Carson McCullers, The Square Root of Wonderful

  • #31
    Tanith Lee
    “I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.”
    Tanith Lee, Wolf Star



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