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.
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 faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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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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I never discuss discussions.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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