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.
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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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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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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It is playing 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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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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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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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