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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThere 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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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