Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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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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Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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 only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds
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The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.
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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 we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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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.