Time 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 HAMMARSKJOLDDestiny 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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.
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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 playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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To 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.
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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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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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