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 HAMMARSKJOLDI am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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 when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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