The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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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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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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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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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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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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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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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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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