Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTime goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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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 easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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A 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.
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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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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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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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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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