Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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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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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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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