Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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 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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Maturity – 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.
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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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