Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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 own experience or convictions.
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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 body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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