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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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?
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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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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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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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 never discuss discussions.
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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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