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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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I never discuss discussions.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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The myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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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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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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