It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTo forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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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Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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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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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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