It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDOnly he deserves power who every day justifies it.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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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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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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 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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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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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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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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