I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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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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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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