Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDLife only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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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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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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