We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe 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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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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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 easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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I never discuss discussions.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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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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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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