Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIn 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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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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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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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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 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 pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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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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