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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I never discuss discussions.
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Your 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.
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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 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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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 only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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