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 HAMMARSKJOLDFreedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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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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Your 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.
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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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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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