Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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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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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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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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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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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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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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