Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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 we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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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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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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