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?
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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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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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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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