The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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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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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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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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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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