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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThose who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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There 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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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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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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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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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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