Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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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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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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