Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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 for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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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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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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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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