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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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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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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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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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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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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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