It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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 more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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 never discuss discussions.
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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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