The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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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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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Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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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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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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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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