Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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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 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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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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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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