I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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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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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 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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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 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 pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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