We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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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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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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