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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDWhat 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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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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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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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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