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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Dag Hammarskjold

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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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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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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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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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