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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDI never discuss discussions.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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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.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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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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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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