It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDEverything 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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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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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