In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDI am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDForgiveness 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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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?
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe 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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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDA 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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDPraise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDWe are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDFreedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDTo 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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