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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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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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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 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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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 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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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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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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