Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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