I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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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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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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