We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDI believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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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 only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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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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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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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 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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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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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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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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