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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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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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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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I never discuss discussions.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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