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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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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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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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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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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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