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 HAMMARSKJOLDGod does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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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 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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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 we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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