Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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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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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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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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