Turn the Forces of Nature to Your Advantage

Don't fight forces, use them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Today, when the winds of adversity blow strong,
redirect their force into the
service of your highest intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Question from a reader: Please can u throw more light on the wind and redirection thing? (Asked with regard to the quotes above...)

My Response:

A sailboat is designed to use the power of the wind to move in almost any direction (except directly into the wind). I use this as an analogy for our own ability to turn the forces of nature to our advantage. An example would be seeing a college rejection not as a failure, but as an opportunity to learn a trade or start one's own business.

Read my much longer explanation here: Boldly Sail the Storms of Life

War

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- Thomas Mann

If we don't end war, war will end us.
- H. G. Wells

The first casualty when war comes is truth.
- Hiram Johnson

An unjust peace is better than a just war.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war
appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
- Robert Wilson Lynd (1879 - 1949)

War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
- Francois Fenelon

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
- Sun Tzu (544BC - 496 BC)

We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and
never of killing for their country.
- Bertrand Russell

In peace, sons bury their fathers.
In war, fathers bury their sons.
- Herodotus

Thou shalt not kill.
- Exodus 20:13