I never discuss discussions.
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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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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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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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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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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 no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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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 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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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