We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDDo not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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 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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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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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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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