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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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 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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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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