“Men are seldom born brave but they acquire courage through training and discipline - a handful of men inured to war proceed to certain victory; while on the contrary numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.” MenWarCertainBornMilitaryVictoryDisciplineTrainingArmyBraveContraryAcquireTroopsMultitudesHandfulSlaughterUndisciplined Author:Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
“To seduce the enemies soldiers from their allegiance and encourage them to surrender is of special service, for an adversary is more hurt by desertion than by slaughter.” HurtEnemySpecialMilitarySoldierSurrenderAdversariesAllegianceSlaughterSeducingDesertion Author:Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
“When men find they must inevitably perish, they willingly resolve to die with their comrades and with their arms in their hands.” MenHandsDiesMilitaryArmsResolveComrade Author:Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
“Opportunity in war is usually of greater value than bravery... Terrain is often of more value than bravery... Bravery is of more value than numbers.” WarValuesOpportunityNumbersGreaterMilitaryBraveryTerrain Author:Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
“The bride and groom-May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.” LoveMayJoyMarriageMorningSorrowShadowFadesSunlightBridesBride And Groom Author:Minna Antrim
“Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.” All ThingsPatienceStriveTheeStrifeNever ChangeDismay Book:Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila
“Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.” SpiritReligionFallSpiritualityFlowerSpringLongingWeedAntipathy Author:Dogen
“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.” IfsStillsWholePurposeGivenMemoriesLeavingIllnessStealingCertaintyEaseEach DayShockingStarvingCrumbsNo Memory Author:Elisabeth Tova Bailey
“Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away” BeautifulIllnessFocusedWhat You LoveStay Focused Author:Katrina Kenison
“We are all hostages of time. We each have the same number of minutes and hours to live within a day, yet to me it didn't feel equally doled out. My illness brought me such an abundance of time that time was nearly all I had. My friends had so little time that I often wished I could give them what time I could not use. It was perplexing how in losing health I had gained something so coveted but to so little purpose.” GivingFeelsLittlesUsePurposeHoursNumbersMinutesLosingMy FriendsIllnessAbundanceLittle TimeHostage Author:Elisabeth Tova Bailey