Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTo 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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 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 playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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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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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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