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.
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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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 when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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