The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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God 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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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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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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