Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDI am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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