It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDGod 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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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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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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I never discuss discussions.
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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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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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Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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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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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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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 measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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