Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDOnly he deserves power who every day justifies it.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe 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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThere is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDPray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDI never discuss discussions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTime always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDWe are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDYour cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDYour position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIf only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTo forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDFreedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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