Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDA 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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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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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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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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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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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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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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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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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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