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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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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
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Critic Nothing Praise Standard Whom
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Choose Destiny Frame Our Permitted Put
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Create Play Safe Security Utmost World
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I never discuss discussions.
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Discuss Discussion never
I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Draft God One Thirsty Vessel
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
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Anguish Deliver Friendship Loneliness Need Solitude Word
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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Abandon Error Peace Progress Pursuit Relax Setback Success Trail
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
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Better Faithfully Hear Listen More Outside Sound Voice
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
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
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
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Conviction Deny never Quiet Sake Space
I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Believe Decency Least Should Survive
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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Believe Forgive Oneself Ourselves Work
Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Fear Freedom Human Right Philosophy Sais Sum Whole
Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Child Cloud Grant Happiness Mate Maturity One Other Play Thing

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