Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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