“Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right.” LongWarCertainCausesBornProduceBattleUniqueHatredUltimateForgottenAncientConvictionLegacyLong AgoFrontiersFanaticismUltimate Truth Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.” Can DoHalfConfidenceBattleConvictionAssuranceNo Confidence Author:Orison Swett Marden
“My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned feelings that prevail in psychology and therefore also in the way we think and feel about our being. Of these conditions none are more tyrannical than the convictions that clamp the mind and heart into positivistic science (geneticism and computerism), economics (bottom-line capitalism), and single-minded faith (fundamentalism).” ThinkingWayFeelsMindHeartWarFeelingsWinningLinesPsychologyConditionsBattleCapitalismEconomicsBottomConvictionFundamentalismHeart And MindBottom Line Author:James Hillman
“Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again.” DoneMightBeautifulSidesNaturalBattleShameGuiltConvictionInevitable Book:A Thousand Splendid Suns Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns