We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDPraise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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 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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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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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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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 cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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 only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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