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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDPray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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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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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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