Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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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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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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