If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened.
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If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened.
I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.
Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.
It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.
It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.
She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.
A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.
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