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.
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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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