The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it..

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat..

Happy couples make it a habbit to refocus. Because it's quite normal to be distracted. So they talk. They get away for a while. They pray. They go on….

The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats..

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems..

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die..

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a sta….

The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself..

I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from i….

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress..

Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat..

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious..

In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be pla….

I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days..

Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back..

Dont retreat. Retweet!.

So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popu….