The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDPraise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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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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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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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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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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I never discuss discussions.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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