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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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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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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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