We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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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.
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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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