The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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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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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 more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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