Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTime goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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 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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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.
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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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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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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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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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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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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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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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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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