What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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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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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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