Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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 believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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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 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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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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