Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTime goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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