We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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The 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.
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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