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 HAMMARSKJOLDNever, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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 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.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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 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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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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