Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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