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.
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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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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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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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 never discuss discussions.
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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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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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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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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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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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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