Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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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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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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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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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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 more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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