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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDWe are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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God 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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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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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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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I never discuss discussions.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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