#com

Winning requires reaching inside of yourself for that extra gear to accelerate challenges. ↗

I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction? ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#commander #leadership #military #mood #narcissism

No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe. ↗

— Barbara W. Tuchman

#emotion #leadership #warfare #leadership

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#chains-of-events #commonplaces-of-existence #cross-purposes #fiction #on-fiction

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#companionship #life #love #life

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#force-of-nature #marriage #matrimony #nature #pleasure

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#life #tragedy #life

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. ↗

— Jean Racine

#emotions #feeling #life #thinking #tragedy

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it. ↗

— Rick Bragg

#dignity #poverty #life

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life. ↗