The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDYour 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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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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 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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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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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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