Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDDo not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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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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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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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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