Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDPraise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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