Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDEverything 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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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