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.
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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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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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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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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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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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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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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 more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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.
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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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