Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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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 we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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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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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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