Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDI believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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