Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe 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?
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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Time 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.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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