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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Critic Nothing Praise Standard Whom
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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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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Answer Away Broken Clean Forgiveness Made Miracle Soiled
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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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.
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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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Command Duty Give Humiliate Impose Life Live Position Recieve Right
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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