If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDYour cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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