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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDConstant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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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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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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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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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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