I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDConstant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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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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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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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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I never discuss discussions.
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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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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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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 breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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