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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTime 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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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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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.
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