The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDFreedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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Destiny 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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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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