Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTo 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 pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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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 more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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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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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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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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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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I never discuss discussions.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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