Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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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.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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 more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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