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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt 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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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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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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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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I never discuss discussions.
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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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