It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I never discuss discussions.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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 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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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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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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