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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDI believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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