62 quotes
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Vägmärken · Markings (1963)
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 his right road.
Vägmärken · Markings (1963)
Goodness is something so simple: always to live for others, never to seek one's own advantage.
Vägmärken · Markings (1963)
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you — out of love — takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.
Vägmärken · Markings (1963)
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Vägmärken · Markings (1963)
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Vägmärken · Markings (1963)
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Vägmärken · Markings (1963)
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
Vägmärken · Markings (1963)
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided...it is a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
Vägmärken · Markings (1963)
Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions.
Vägmärken · Markings (1963)
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
Vägmärken · Markings (1963)
Time goes by: reputation increases, ability declines.
Vägmärken · Markings (1963)
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons.
Vägmärken · Markings (1963)
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Vägmärken · Markings (1963)
"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy — from lack of character.
Vägmärken · Markings (1963)
You try to save a drowning man without prior authorization.
Setbacks in trying to realize the ideal do not prove that the ideal is at fault.
Le courage de nos différences. Without becoming irresponsible, to accept what divides us — with humility and with pride. It is by the 'new' that mankind is saved or betrayed.
Vägmärken · Markings (1963)