It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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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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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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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 pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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