We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTime 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.
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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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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 more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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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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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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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 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, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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