I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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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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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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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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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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 more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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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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