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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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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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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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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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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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 only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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