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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe 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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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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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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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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