It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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 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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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