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?
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDOnly he deserves power who every day justifies it.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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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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