What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTime goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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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 only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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