It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDPray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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 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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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