“A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.” IfsLongDoeWholeChristianSpiritRealizingDealsMorningOughtWeightDefeatEncounters Author:Watchman Nee
“Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it.” HeartWholeLightPainSpiritualJoyTurnsFunQualityDespairConcernedOvercomingDefeatCombinationHaving FunElectricVitalityTurn-onInseparableElectric Light Book:The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ... Source: The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...
“I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said, ‘If I told you, that would defeat the whole purpose.’” IfsSaidBookSelfWholeHelpingPurposeBehindsSelf HelpDefeatBookstoresSelf Help BooksHelp Book Author:Brian Kiley
“The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.” MeanEndsStatesWholeMomentsWould BePoliticalEconomicRevolutionVictoryMassOrganizationWorkersDefeatParisAnarchyCapitalistOrganismsAdversariesAnarchismAnarchistSlaughterUpside DownProletariatCommunesThings Upside Down Author:Friedrich Engels
“Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.” WritingHumansWholeDreamRaceFatePoetTerribleSolitudeDefeatTornPropositionsEccentric Book:Souvenirs and prophecies: the young Wallace Stevens Source: Souvenirs and prophecies: the young Wallace Stevens
“Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat - especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.” MayDoeI CanWholeFormLawNaturalSpaceEmotionalDefeatOneselfSatisfactionStreamsSuggestionsBondageHistoricTransientNatural LawEphemeral Author:H. P. Lovecraft