The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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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 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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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.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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