Quotes of: Battling Keyword

Evil is never in a rush. It creeps up slowly. It doesn't hide, but confronts you in broad daylight. It gives decades of warnings, even centuries at times. Time is never the problem when you battle Evil. The problem is the will to fight it.

The Oath of the Vayuputras

There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle.

The Perfect Game

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

My life's been defined by my actions. I've shaped my destiny through my battles. I would rather keep chasing after my dreams until I crumble into dust than sit around waiting for fate to show me mercy.

Paradise

So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing

When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

The battle belongs to the Lord, and we already know that He wins the war.

A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life

Sure we could replace war with paintball battles. But it would escalate to paint grenades, paint bombs, weapons of mass paint. I don’t want to live in a world where my kids have to worry about what color they will be in the morning.

Zombies Love Pizza

The dark prince sat astride his black steed, his sable cape flowing behind him. A golden circlet bound his blond locks, his handsome face was cold with the rage of battle, and... "And his arm looked like an eggplant," Clary muttered to herself in exa...

City of Bones

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Pope Francis

During a match, you are in a permanent battle to fight back your everyday vulnerabilities, bottle up your human feelings. It’s a kind of self-hypnosis, a game you play, with deadly seriousness, to disguise your own weaknesses from yourself, as well...

Rafael Nadal i Farreras

My religious beliefs teach me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time of my death. I do not concern myself with that, but to be always ready whenever it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and all men would be eq...

Stonewall Jackson