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Quotes by Swedish Authors
"The only excuse for not improving yourself is not taking the time and effort to."
"The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability."
"In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure."
"I remember sitting and meditating beside a slow flowing river in India, and I got the feeling that this river could teach me all the secrets of the mystery of life. If we learn to surrender to a stone, a flower, to a man, to a woman, or a river, it becomes a door to the Whole."
"Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe."
"The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood."
"A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility."
"First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war."
"She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones in the cathedral of her body."
"Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself."
"The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness."
"The future starts within a second from now.The past was, within a second ago."
"Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges."
"The mother is the child's first relationship, his whole world, his existence. If there is love in the relationship between the child and the mother, the child learns to trust himself, to trust others and to trust life. If there is no love in the relationship between the mother and the child, the child learns to distrust himself, to distrust others and to distrust life."
"I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one."
"And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first."
"The amount of sympathy you get from having an illness is paid out like a Ponzi scheme and psychiatric disorders are all the way at the bottom."
"Independence and free thought is what makes a person grow. By giving people the freedom and space to figure out who they are and be that, you give them the power to grow."
"Your action plan is what you use to turn your dream into reality."
"Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance."
"The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development."
"If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously."
"Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money."
"The human heart is a healer, which heals both others and ourselves."
"In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell."
"We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE."
"To see life from the perspective of intuition is to have vision. To see life from the perspective of intuition is to see life from the perspective of wholeness. It is to understand that life is basically one and that we are part of life. While the intellect can only see the details, intuition sees the whole. To see life from the perspective of intuition is like looking at life from the summit of the mountain, whereas seeing life only from the perspective of intellect is like looking at life from the foot of the mountain. Through learning to listen to our intuition, we learn to be in contact with the Whole."
"Soccer forces life to move on. There's always a new match. A new season. There's always a dream that everything can get better. It's a game of wonders."
"I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out."
"I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18."
"ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that."
"Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time."
"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."
"When you read a book and its words agree with what you think, your view of the world or your feelings at the time, you discover that there are people out there that think like you. That takes away a feeling of loneliness."
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