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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThere 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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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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I never discuss discussions.
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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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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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