Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDMaturity – 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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 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 measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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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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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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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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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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