Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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