It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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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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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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