It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDGod does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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 never discuss discussions.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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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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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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