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• Life only demands from you the strength you possess.
  Only one feat is possible -- not to have run away. -- Dag Hammarskjold...
• Life demands from you only the strength you possess.
  One one feat is possible -- not to have run away. -- Dag Hammarskjold...
• You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.
  If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency....
• 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. -- Dag Hammarskjold...
• The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you hear what is sounding outside.
  And only he who listens can speak. -- Dag Hammarskjold...
• Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top.
  Then you will see how low it was. -- Dag Hammarskjold...
• Do not seek death; death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
  -- Dag Hammarskjold...
• One woman can make you fly like an eagle. Another can give you the strength of a lion.
  But only one in a cycle of lives can fill you with gladness and the wisdom that you have known a singular joy....