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.
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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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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 when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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