Quotes on Battlefields

Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier.

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in tough situations; and temperance is love in training.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.