Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDLife 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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