The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDI am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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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.
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