In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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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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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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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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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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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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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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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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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