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 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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God 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.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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