We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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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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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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