I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDYour 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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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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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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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