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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.

Dag Hammarskjold

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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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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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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 only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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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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