Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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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 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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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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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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