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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDI am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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 am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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