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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDLife 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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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 we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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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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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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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.
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