Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDConstant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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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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It is when we all play 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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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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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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