Time 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 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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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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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 pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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 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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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