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.
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 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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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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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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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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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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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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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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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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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 when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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