The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDDo not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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 only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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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 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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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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I never discuss discussions.
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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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