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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDOnly he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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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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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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I never discuss discussions.
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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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