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“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world."
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"There is no greater misfortune
than underestimating your enemy.
Underestimating your enemy
means thinking that he is evil.
Thus you destroy your three treasures
and become an enemy yourself.
When two great forces oppose each other,
the victory will go
to the one that knows how to yield.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.”
― Dennis E. Adonis

“Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love

“For every person who closed the door in my face, thank you. For every person who told me I wasn't good enough, thank you. For every person who laughed and told me that I was wasting my time going to college, because I was going to fail, thank you. For every person who tried to break me, thank you. For every person who took my kindness for weakness, thank you. For every person who told me I was wasting time chasing my dreams because I would fail, thank you. It could of broke me. From the core of my heart, I thank you. I truly mean it, because if it weren't for each of you I wouldn't be who I am today. I wouldn't of spend hours and loss sleep studying. I wouldn't developed tough skin. You pushed me to think about what I "really" want out of life. You pushed me to master my craft. You helped me develop the drive, passion and determination. You pushed me to not wait for someone to believe in my vision, but to find a way to make things happen. I know you didn't "intend" to, but I thank you for teaching me to believe in myself! AND you taught me to TRUST in God and lean on my faith, not man. Thank You!”
― Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

“A good enemy can be better than the best of friend.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop

“Don’t hate your enemies, they don’t even deserve it.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
― Dan Wells, Fragments

“If you think you don't have enemies, then they have won.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Staying with detractors is like sleeping in a room located just behind the public toilet. You will never feel comfortable until you relocate.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Your enemy is most humbled when he finds out that the person that he looks up to �� looks up to you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Time is your only enemy, it disappears very quickly and never gives you a second chance.”
― Steve Douglas, The Aussie Expat: The Luckiest Person on Earth

“God wants us to worry about our sins before we sin; the devil wants us to worry after we sin. God wants us to feel free after we repent (for we really are free then); the devil is a deceiver). The devil tempts us to cavalier pride before we sin and worrisome despair afterward, since pride and despair both separate us from God, and anything that separates us from God is the devil's friend and our enemy, while anything that brings us close to God is the devil's enemy and our friend.”
― Peter Kreeft, Prayer for Beginners

“The strength of your obstacle determines the weight of your potentials. The greater your potentials, the heavier your dunamis power must be.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“But still �� that is our vocation: to convert the hostis into a hospes, the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.”
― Henri Nouwen

“Народът в тъмна тъмнина. Ама ние сме в чужда държава... Това знайме ние за робство и тегло. Сега, виж ти... Свой насилва своя, мъчи го, ограбва го.”
― Димитър Талев, Преспанските камбани

“when building a friendship bridge don't forget to construct a distruative path.”
― peter adejimi

“You end up with a machine which knows that by its mildest estimate it must have terrible enemies all around and within it, but it can't find them. It therefore deduces that they are well-concealed and expert, likely professional agitators and terrorists. Thus, more stringent and probing methods are called for. Those who transgress in the slightest, or of whom even small suspicions are harboured, must be treated as terrible foes. A lot of rather ordinary people will get repeatedly investigated with increasing severity until the Government Machine either finds enemies or someone very high up indeed personally turns the tide... And these people under the microscope are in fact just taking up space in the machine's numerical model. In short, innocent people are treated as hellish fiends of ingenuity and bile because there's a gap in the numbers.”
― Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World

“My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“An enemy of your enemy might be your friend. But a friend of your friend isn’t automatically your friend.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“If the enemy is a significant part of your body, then how do you destroy it without killing yourself?”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“A cockroach can not attend the meeting of chicken and be offered innocent.”
― peter adejimi

“Every war and conflict that the United States enters has its own ROE [rules of engagement]. Contrary to what most people think, the U.S. military does not have a complete license to kill, even in wartime. We are not a barbaric state, and we do not enter any war with the intention of unilaterally killing anything in our path. We go out of our way to spare civilian lives, to keep those who are not in the war out of it--sometimes even at the expense of risking our own soldiers' safety. We do this by creating strict rules to which our soldies adhere. These rules govern when they can fire, when they cannot; what type of force they can use, what type they cannot; what they can do in particular situations, and what they cannot. The reason for this is that battles can become very confusing very quickly, and a common soldier needs simple rules to guide him, to know when he is or is not allowed to kill--and who is and is not the enemy.”
― Michael DeLong, A General Speaks Out: The Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

“The enemy is over there and we are still seeking revenge from the nature.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“Leaders unify nations by creating an external enemy, and nations make that dream comes true.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“Kenalilah dirimu dan musuhmu , lihatlah ke cermin itulah dirimu dan musuhmu.”
― Mochamad Fathurizqon Mutiudin

“* General Napoleon says that ‘Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.�� Well, I suggest doing the opposite: Interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Don’t be opportunist; don’t benefit from the weakness of your enemy! Be just even to your enemy! Try to find a way to defeat him without harming him; prove to be as intelligent as to find such a way! Only then, your victory will be meaningful and honourable!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan