Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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The myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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I never discuss discussions.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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