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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIs 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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 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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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