The idea is to go to bed every night with fewer enemies than you had in the morning.
Interpretation
Strive to improve your interpersonal relationships daily by resolving conflicts and making peace.
This quote emphasizes the importance of fostering positive relationships with others. By actively working to reduce animosity and disagreement, we can create a more harmonious environment and contribute to personal and collective well-being. It suggests that each day provides an opportunity to mend relationships, thereby enriching our lives and those around us.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a team-building workshop to encourage a positive work environment.
There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let down and then strive to go forward with a greater sense of humility and purpose, and with gratitude to those who stood with me during a very difficult chapter in my life.
I considered our British comrades to rank with the finest men and women of any armed service in the world. And I know that my fellow American soldiers - and those of the other coalition countries under my command - valued very highly the professional expertise, capability, courage, and determination of our British partners on the battlefield.
In the 101st Airborne Division headquarters in Mosul, we had a sign on the wall. It was a question that we would ask ourselves before every new operation or policy initiative. It asked: Will this policy or operation take more bad guys off the streets than it creates by its conduct?
We periodically note that there are no silver bullets, there are no magic formulas, there's no single action or component of the overall... comprehensive civil-military approach.
At least from a national security standpoint, none of the problems the U.S. and U.K. face will become easier to solve if the U.K. is out of the E.U.; on the contrary, I fear that a 'Brexit' would only make our world even more dangerous and difficult to manage.
When Western politicians propose blanket discrimination against Islam, they bolster the terrorists' propaganda.
Life is a big collaboration - and when you're tackling something that is painful and troubling and is causing you such desperate grief that you think life's not worth living - you need to reach out. To people who will reach back.
That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.
The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.
According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.
Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or won't. In general, however, the more you let go of the tedious delusion of your own unattractiveness, the easier it will be for others to connect with you, and the more accepted you'll feel.
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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