#wi

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry! ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#cavalry #chance #deep #defended #entrenched

We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#dead #die #earth #gave #go

One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#bored #fun #head #make #monotonous

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#bid #does #enter #his #house

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#brother #doubt #his #know #lonely

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#beyond #heart #knowledge #proof #reach

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#between #bond #dance #heavens #love

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#acts #idle #infinitely #knowledge #little

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#before #bow #children #cry #does

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#bare feet #delights #earth #feel #feet