{"author":"Aleksandra Layland","author_id":"Aleksandra+Layland","total_quotes":29,"quotes":[{"text":"You study the Path of Peace. I practice the Art of War. There are some congruities between these different approaches but there are many more differences, and they are significant. The Art of War is carried out on the battlefield with deadly weaponry and sometimes, more importantly, in other places and in other ways that you would find distasteful. If I speak little about my plans it's because the Art of War teaches that it is the business of a general to ensure secrecy. You might want to mollify or change my tactics or strategies to fit the morals of your peacetime world and I'd be shackled and hampered in seeing the victory won as it should be, as quickly as possible, with as little fighting as possible, and at the lowest cost possible. You cannot bear the consequences of battle and you don't know the resources required. I do.","author":"Aleksandra Layland","tags":["battlefield","military","peace","war"],"id":26895,"author_id":"Aleksandra+Layland"},{"text":"The trees were his chapel and the hillsides his cathedral.","author":"Aleksandra Layland","tags":["faith","nature","purity-of-heart","religion","religion-spirituality","spirituality"],"id":28313,"author_id":"Aleksandra+Layland"},{"text":"If we go to war, it must only be with right on our side.","author":"Aleksandra Layland","tags":["right","rightness","war","warfare"],"id":39203,"author_id":"Aleksandra+Layland"},{"text":"We must not bind our hearts to the things of the world, no matter how beautiful they are or how much pleasure they give us. Our hearts must soar in the heavens for us to be truly the humans we were meant to be.","author":"Aleksandra Layland","tags":["detachment","heart","heaven-on-earth","heaven","heavenly","human","human-being","human-nature","inspirational","spirituality","spirituality"],"id":43532,"author_id":"Aleksandra+Layland"},{"text":"Into every life both tragedy and triumph can fall, and we must learn to meet both with equal serenity.","author":"Aleksandra Layland","tags":["life","life-lessons","serenity","spirituality"],"id":45751,"author_id":"Aleksandra+Layland"},{"text":"There was no jealousy on the part of a new spouse over the love or affection a man or woman shared with a former spouse. It was considered a blessing to have had such loves in one's life.","author":"Aleksandra Layland","tags":["jealousy","jealousy","jealousy-love","love","love","love","love-and-sayings","spouse","wife-and-husband"],"id":86940,"author_id":"Aleksandra+Layland"},{"text":"You may be a good warrior... But you've made a mistake I never did. You agreed to serve a stupid king.","author":"Aleksandra Layland","tags":["king","mistakes","stupid","stupid-decisions","stupidity","warrior"],"id":89158,"author_id":"Aleksandra+Layland"},{"text":"A man who wears a sword knows to hold the love of his wife and family dear, for at any time he may not see another day of it.","author":"Aleksandra Layland","tags":["family-love","love","soldier","sword","warrior","wife"],"id":132771,"author_id":"Aleksandra+Layland"},{"text":"Endurance is a good virtue.","author":"Aleksandra Layland","tags":["endurance","endurance","virtues"],"id":149339,"author_id":"Aleksandra+Layland"},{"text":"He believed with all his heart that we should spend our lives in happiness and service, in joy and work, in kindness and in love, and he lived... And died... What he believed.","author":"Aleksandra Layland","tags":["belief","happiness","joy","kindness","love","service-to-mankind","work-ethic"],"id":174363,"author_id":"Aleksandra+Layland"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}