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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThose who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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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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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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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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 only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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