If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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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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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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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 more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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The myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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