Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDMaturity – 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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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The myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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