If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDMaturity – 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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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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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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