Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your 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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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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Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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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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