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?
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDConstant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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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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