Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
From Dag Hammarskjold
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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