Life 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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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