I never discuss discussions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTime goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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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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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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