#defeat

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#grief #hard #life #newborn #room

For after all, why do we go on fighting? If we die for democracy then we must be one of the democracies. Let the rest fight with us, if that is the case. But the most powerful of them, the only one that could save us, chooses to bide its time. Very good. That is its right. But by so doing, that democracy signifies that we are fighting for ourselves alone. And we go on fighting despite the assurance that we have lost the war. Why, then, do we go on dying? Out of despair? But there is no despair. You know nothing about defeat if you think there is room in it for despair. There is a verity that is higher than the pronouncements of the intelligence. There is a thing which pierces and governs us and which cannot be grasped by the intelligence. A tree has no language. We are a tree. There are truths which are evident, though not to be put into words. I do not die in order to obstruct the path of the invasion, for there is no shelter upon which I can fall back with those I love. I do not die to preserve my honor, since I deny that my honor is at stake, and I challenge the jurisdiction of my judge. Nor do I die out of desperation. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#despair #war #intelligence

Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see. ↗

— David J. Schwartz

#optimism #perspective #optimism

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#oppression #defeat

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#because #contention #contests #defeat #harbor

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#adult #alone #defeat #eating #kind

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#before #defeat #had #never #victory

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#defeat #difficult #less #more #problems

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor? ↗

— Virgil

#defeated #enemy #strategy #valor #whether

The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#activists #barack #barack obama #because #country