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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDEverything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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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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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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