Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIf only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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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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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 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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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