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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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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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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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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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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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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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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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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 own experience or convictions.
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