Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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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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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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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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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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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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