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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe 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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Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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 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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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