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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjold
Brainy
Frame
Our
Destiny
Ours
Put
Permitted
Choose
Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.
Goran Persson
New Year's
Humanity
Word
Will
Year
Sense
Our
Members
Finest
New
Fellow
Another
Resolution
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold
Alone
Loneliness
Great
You
Live
Enough
Finding
Something
Pray
Spur
Die
May
Your
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
Ellen Key
Imagination
Ideal
Limit
Does
Paints
Need
I think it's important to always keep professional and surround yourself with good people, work hard, and be nice to everyone.
Caroline Winberg
Work
Good
Yourself
People
Work Hard
Surround Yourself
Good People
Be Nice
Important
Nice
Think
Everyone
Always
Surround
Hard
Professional
Keep
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Dag Hammarskjold
Freedom
Rights
Fear
Human Rights
Sum
Philosophy
Could
Freedom From
Said
Up
Human
Whole
Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.
Jens Lekman
You
Yourself
Sometimes
Before
Phoenix
Rise
Like
Burn
Ashes
Ground
Contentment is the only real wealth.
Alfred Nobel
Wealth
Contentment
Only
Real
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
Dag Hammarskjold
Good
Surgeon
Important
Nurse
Constant
Attention
Major
Operation
May
Just
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Charity
Thought
Others
Recompense
True
Useful
Desire
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman
Happiness
Health
Good
Good Health
Memory
Bad
I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.
Jens Lekman
Character
You
Happy
People
Better
Hardships
Build
Think
Other
Relationships
Definitely
Carry
Something
More
Better Person
Misfortunes
Towards
Make
Makes
Understand
Very
Person
Much
Even
Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.
Ellen Key
Strength
Patriotism
Power
Country
Nationalism
Other
Other Countries
Honour
Seeks
Laws
Only
Through
Idea
Countries
Knows
Glory
Permanently
Still
Endanger
Whereas
Create
Means
Regulations
International
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold
Nature
You
Will
Top
See
Never
Reached
Until
How
Mountain
Low
Height
Then
Measure
If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.
Lykke Li
Time
Good
You
Yourself
Being Ignored
Good Time
Own
Finding
Finding Yourself
Mystery
Concentrate
Being
Creating
Your
Ignored
There's always haters, no matter what you're doing - whether they're complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it's too different.
Avicii
You
Matter
Complaining
Haters
Too
Everything
Always
Doing
Sounds
Same
Different
Whether
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold
Peace
Experience
Own
Convictions
Never
Sake
Deny
Quiet
Your
Peace And Quiet
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.
Dag Hammarskjold
God
Day
Daily
Believe
Our
Our Lives
Deity
Steady
Beyond
Renewed
Does
Source
Cease
Wonder
Personal
Die
Which
Radiance
Reason
Lives
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Dag Hammarskjold
Yourself
Diligently
Give
More
Individual
Noble
Masses
Labor
Than
Salvation
You can always enhance your natural beauty; you learn what works for your face because crazy make-up doesn't really suit anyone.
Caroline Winberg
Crazy
You
Natural
Face
Beauty
Natural Beauty
Learn
Because
Always
Anyone
Really
Your
Works
Enhance
Suit
A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
Ingrid Bergman
Love
Kiss
Mouth
Secret
Kisses
Tenderness
Instead
Ear
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
Ingrid Bergman
Yourself
World
Be Yourself
Worships
Original
I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
Ingrid Bergman
Lion
Me
Inside
Invented
Had
Up
Human
Ever
Shut
Shut Up
I don't want to break someone's heart, but you can't control that. A broken heart happens; that's inevitable.
Lykke Li
Broken
You
Heart
Inevitable
Control
Broken Heart
Someone
Want
Break
Happens
It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.
Avicii
People
Some People
Feeling
Melodies
Some
Inspired
Mostly
Get
Hard
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
Bjorn Borg
Never Give Up
Great
Persistence
Fight
Down
Give
Point
Never
Until
Match
Ball
Greatest
Matches
Am
However
Up
List
So-Called
Victories
Turned
Many
Shows
Defeats
Last
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