Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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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 am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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?
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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To 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.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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