Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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