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 HAMMARSKJOLDForgiveness 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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Everything 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.
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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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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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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 more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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 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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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 when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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