#gains

Was this love? Because it hurt. It was like a bit of glass stuck somewhere important--his heart or his head, and it was throbbing. ↗

— Jenny Downham

#love

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#fear #litany-against-fear #motivational #scifi #death

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#against #axis #harbor #pearl #pearl harbor

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him. ↗

— Charles Peguy

#any #father #guilty #hand #having

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#against #everyday #knows #man #over

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#carried #i #long #people #say