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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDI believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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