The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe 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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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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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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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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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