The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDEverything 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.
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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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