Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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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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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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Is 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.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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