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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThere is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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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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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.
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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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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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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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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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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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