Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDPray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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 easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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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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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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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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