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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDPray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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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.
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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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Life 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.
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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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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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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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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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There 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.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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