Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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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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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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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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