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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.

Dag Hammarskjold

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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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Body Break Contract Curve Delicate Gather Journey Meet Muscle Soul Strength Total
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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Back Become Everything Life Longer Look Lost Neutral Point Question Stake
I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Believe Decency Least Should Survive
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Anguish Deliver Friendship Loneliness Need Solitude Word
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Convenience Deny Experience never Own Pieve Quiet Sake
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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Always Become Child Christmas Day Grow Happy Long Moment Next Seem Summer Suremder Time Wait
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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Defeat End Few Progress Pursuit Victory Year
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Attention Constant Major Operation Surgeon
Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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Abstraction All Artist Be Everything Know Painting People Right Themselves Think Weird
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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Accept Atrophy Conquer Gain Give Good Life Live Muscle Stolen Yield
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Die Enough Find Into Live Loneliness Pray Something
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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Avoid Contrary Course Desire Destiny History Human Implies Meaning Reason Something World
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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Being Destiny Inward Journey Longest Quest Source Start
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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Body Comment Death Degree Emotional Evident Familiar Life Neutral Possible Self Step Towards Worthy
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
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Conviction Deny never Quiet Sake Space

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