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.
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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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