Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDYour 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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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 when we all play 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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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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