It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDGod 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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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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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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