Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTime 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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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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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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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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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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