"Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation."

-- Ibn Khaldun

#Defeat Quotes #Psychological Quotes #Victim Quotes

“Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ...”

Source : Vicki Baum (1964). “I know what I'm worth”, London
“You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.69, D & M Publishers
“To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.”
“A negative mind will never give you a positive life.”
“Everyone has an hour in their day to go and do something for somebody else; I don't care how busy they are.”
“What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?”
“The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits by the conventional way of accounting for profits. It's very hard to make yourself change. But we all know that change is an inevitable part of business. Once you have ridden a wave just so far, you have to get another wave. We all know that. For us, becoming restorative has been that new wave and we have been riding it for 13 years now. It's been incredibly good for business.”
“Prayer is not intended to change God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has decreed that certain events shall come to pass through the means He has appointed for their accomplishment.”

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