The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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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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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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?
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