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.
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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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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 measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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