The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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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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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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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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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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The myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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