Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDDestiny 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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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 we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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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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It is playing 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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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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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