Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDWe are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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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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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 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 am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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