Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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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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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 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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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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