We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDWe are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe 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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDEverything 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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDLife 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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDPray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIn the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThere 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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDPraise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDFriendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDConstant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTime 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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDDo not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThose who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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