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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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 only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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