Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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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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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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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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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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