We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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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 pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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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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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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