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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDLife only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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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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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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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.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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