Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIf even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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It is when we all play 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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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