Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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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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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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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