It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge elementary mistake, the betrayal of that within me which is greater than I--in complacent adjustment to alien demands.
Dag HammarskjoldIt was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.
Dag HammarskjoldHumility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.
Dag HammarskjoldThe only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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