Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIs 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.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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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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To 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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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 when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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.
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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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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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