In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIn 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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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