If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDForgiveness 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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