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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.

Dag Hammarskjold

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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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Anguish Bear Burden Loneliness Make Own Share
Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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Abstraction All Artist Be Everything Know Painting People Right Themselves Think Weird
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Better Faithfully Hear Listen More Outside Sound Voice
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Critic Nothing Praise Standard Whom
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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Alone Assume Become Duty Essential Integrity Moment Part Responsibility Suspect Task
I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Ability Decline Go Increase Reputation Time
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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Analysis Answer Conception Death Decide Last Life Question Us
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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Back Become Everything Life Longer Look Lost Neutral Point Question Stake
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Firmer Grow Only Quiter Simpler Warmer Way
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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Believe Forgive Oneself Ourselves Work
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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Body Comment Death Degree Emotional Evident Familiar Life Neutral Possible Self Step Towards Worthy
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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Always Become Child Christmas Day Grow Happy Long Moment Next Seem Summer Suremder Time Wait
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?
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Body Break Contract Curve Delicate Gather Journey Meet Muscle Soul Strength Total
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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Animal Ask Attend Crave God Human Prayer
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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