I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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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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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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The myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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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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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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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