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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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There 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.
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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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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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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 more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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