Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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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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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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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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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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 measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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