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.
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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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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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 measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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