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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Dag Hammarskjold

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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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Back Become Everything Life Longer Look Lost Neutral Point Question Stake
I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Die Enough Find Into Live Loneliness Pray Something
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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Being Destiny Inward Journey Longest Quest Source Start
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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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Child Cloud Grant Happiness Mate Maturity One Other Play Thing
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Accept Certain Heard History Invoke Verdict
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Attention Constant Major Operation Surgeon
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
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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Completly Diligently Give Individual Mass More Noble Salvation Yourself
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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Avoid Contrary Course Desire Destiny History Human Implies Meaning Reason Something World
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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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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