“Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
Sara Shepard book Perfect
Source: Perfect
“When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.”
— Jodi Picoult, book Nineteen Minutes
Source: Nineteen Minutes
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“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
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“The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.”
Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist
Clemantine Wamariya (1988) Rwandan-American activist and author
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“When a feeling dissolves, it ceases to be your enemy and begins to be one of your allies.”
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If you know others and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know others but know yourself, you win one and lose one; if you do not know others and do not know yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
Know your enemy and know yourself, find naught in fear for 100 battles. Know yourself but not your enemy, find level of loss and victory. Know not thy enemy nor yourself, wallow in defeat every time.
Literal translation: Know [the] other, know [the] self, hundred battles without danger; not knowing [the] other but know [the] self, one win one loss; not knowing [the] other, not knowing [the] self, every battle must [be] lost.
Source: The Art of War, Chapter III · Strategic Attack
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker
“When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
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Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909–1966) Polish writer
"He who had dug his own grave", from To Abel and Cain, commemorating his escape from the Nazis by his 1943 killing of an SS guard who had been assigned to watch as he dug his own grave, as quoted in "10 Amazing Ways People Survived The Holocaust" by Alan Boyle at Listverse (9 November 2014) http://listverse.com/2014/11/09/10-amazing-ways-people-survived-the-holocaust/