Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDWe are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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