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.
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 more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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 pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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