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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Dag Hammarskjold

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Dag Hammarskjold
Age: 55 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1961
Died: January 1
Diplomat
Economist
Poet
Politician
Writer
Jönköpings stad
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
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We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.
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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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It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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I have only my own burden to bear.
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Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.
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The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder.
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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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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others.
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To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.
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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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Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us.
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Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.
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Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...
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Friendship needs no words.
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