Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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 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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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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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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