Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDFriendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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 believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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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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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.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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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 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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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