The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDFriendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I never discuss discussions.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
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The myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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