Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDWhat 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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 faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your 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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I never discuss discussions.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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 playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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