Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDEverything 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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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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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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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.
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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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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 more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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