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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.

Dag Hammarskjold

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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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Dignity Diminish Genius Indifference Kind Only Other
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
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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Before Down Fix Horizon Keep Look never Next Step Talk
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
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
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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Alone Assume Become Duty Essential Integrity Moment Part Responsibility Suspect Task
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Away Demand Feat Life Posses Run Strength
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Accept Certain Heard History Invoke Verdict
Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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Answer Away Broken Clean Forgiveness Made Miracle Soiled
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
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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Animal Ask Attend Crave God Human Prayer
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Create Play Safe Security Utmost World
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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Die Disturb Favor Function Grant Made Party Social Tiptoe
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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Height How Measure Mountain never Reach Top Until
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
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

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