Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDA 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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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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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